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X6MW3aQrZU5VKkz on Nov 29, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Need The Lord Of The Rings Timeline? It's On Your ...

Please remember that every time you cat a file and pipe it to grep an innocent process dies. Have you no compassion?

Evbn on Nov 30, 2012 [–]

Its OK, an innocent process is born too.

And the address space gets recycled.

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