Monthly Archives: August 2011

Saving both stdout and stderr while echoing to screen

As mentioned before, tee, a useful but horridly named utility, allows you to save stdout while echoing it to the screen. Sometimes, however, you need both stderr and stdout. Bash allows you to combine stderr and stdout by appending 2>&1 … Continue reading

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Advantage made my cat have seizures

For all of the web searchers, apparently Advantage can make cats have seizures. Six months ago Lucy the cat got fleas, most likely from the vet where she’d been for some minor surgery. We applied canine advantage to our dog … Continue reading

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