Using sed 11q can be an early sign of dementia

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Link to research paper on Pubmed

There is a huge debate on whether to use head or sed 11q command on your shell scripts, it turns out using the latter can be a sign of dimentia as far as I understand from reading the above research paper. Its in a very reputed journal so it must be true

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The two commands are not equivalent. sed 11q prints 11 lines whereas head’s default is 10.

Personally I would prefer head -11 in this situation as it more clearly indicates, for the sake of the meme, that something is being removed from the head.

There’s also that head seems to be ever-so-slightly quicker, perhaps proving what we already knew about thinking being quicker than speech.

TL;DR That’s what she sed?

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something is being removed from the head

Around here we call that a haircut. Or brain surgery if its done by a doctor.

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Dementia

Great, a Debian distro targeted at gamers. Just what we needed. 🙄

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you can skip both if you just tac | tail | tac

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You can skip everything if you

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sudo rm -rf –no-preserve-root /

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I can link to a Research paper with that in the title therefore I am right

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