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Say you need to md5sum 46 files, all ending in “.foo” in a single directory. You might use your standard md5sum *.foo > md5sum.txt command to checksum them all in one process. Get coffee, it’s done, move on.

“I wanna watch the man paint the girl!”

This is what Simon, age two years and eight months, is saying as he sits in my lap. He means that he wants to watch this for the third fourth time:

Today I revisited some scripts I last touched on December 5, 2011 for very very carefully archiving research data with checksums, an audit trail, and other very very careful things like that.

Today at the grocery store, I heard “Hot Hot Hot!!!” by The Cure playing on the store music pipe. The Cure. At Kroger.

I think I once knew this, but forgot about it. Still, the fact remains:

I Did Not Know about multitail.