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Re: humanize_number(3) for dd(1) summary?



On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 03:47:45PM +0300, Aleksej Saushev wrote:
> >
> > That would break my shell script that echoes commands into telnet .....
> 
> Does it work at all?  I have tried feeding commands to telnet through a pipe,
> one has to use more advanced tools (Lua doesn't help much with it).

I have done that it the past in order to delete emails from a pop3 server.
The trick was to add 'sleep n' between the writes.

(athough that script ran blind, ignoring output.)

        David

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