[H-GEN] Encrypting a tar backup

[Jason Parker-Burlingham]

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Christopher Biggs <chris at stallion.oz.au> writes:

> Jason Parker-Burlingham <jasonp at uq.net.au> moved upon the face of the 'Net and spake thusly:
> > Boy, I'd love to give a talk on the almost complete uselessness of
> > cat(1).  Book me for next time I'm in town.
> Granted that "cat file | pipeline" is a no-op, I *still* do it fairly
> often because I like to compose my shellscripts with my thoughts in
> order, rather than

Sure.  cat is usually a good indicator that the programmer is a novice
(nothing wrong with that, but it's nice to let novices know there's a
better way[1]) or that they know what they're doing and like it that
way.

jason

[1] : Like the NT guy I met at the last SAGE meeting here.  Someone
      brought along his vintage PowerPC laptop running SCO[2] and so
      we had a grand old time introducing him to pipes, background
      processes, and blocking reads/writes.

      By the end of the half-hour he was markedly impressed.

[2] : Apparently even NetBSD doesn't run on this thing, which has a PC
      bus, etc, but a PowerPC CPU.  Personally I dunno.
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