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Here’s a link to an excellent Unix reference containing just about any command I can think of and then some: http://cb.vu/unixtoolbox.xhtml.

I’m not a member of any organized political party, I’m a Democrat!Will Rogers

This primary, I’m a Democrat. I’m also not a member of an organized political party. After voting in the Texas Democratic primary, my lovely wife and I participated in the primary caucus at the neighborhood elementary school in Austin, Texas. The turnout was astounding. The line went out the door several people deep maybe for a block. After getting through the doors at a local school, our neighbors entered an auditorium, filling it to capacity and then some. The volunteers were overwhelmed by the turnout, and didn’t have enough sign up sheets for everyone who showed up. Plan B was to have people fill blank sheets of paper out by hand. Stations were set up for people to fill out forms, volunteers chosen, and people were called up to the front. First to go were people with disabilities, then parents with small kids, and then University of Texas basketball fans. There was a game on. One Texas A & M alum took umbrage with this clear display of partisan favoritism, and called for people to sign in table by table, to a sincere round of applause. Then the behind the scene organizers got busy. They went to the stations, got the papers and distributed them to people at the tables. At our table, we talked about how someone should write down how to do this. I joked about trying to find the piece of paper with the instructions at the next historic caucus, maybe in 30 years or so. After a brief scramble for pens, the people happily filled in their information, including demographic data and their preference for the presidential nominee. The room cleared out pretty quickly after that, except for the hard-working volunteers left to tally the votes signatures. The Texas Democratic party has a unique nomination process. I’m not even sure how to quantify our participation in the caucus, but there were a lot of people who thought it was important to be there and give their candidate an extra push.