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# 51. Miscellaneous Useful Programs and Curiosities

Contents:
We Are Finally Getting to the Bottom of the Bucket
How UNIX Keeps Time
ASCII Characters: Listing and Getting Values
Who's On?
Copy What You Do with script
Cleaning script Files
When You Get Impatient
Type Bang Splat. Don't Forget the Rabbit Ears
Making a "Login" Shell
The date Command
Making an Arbitrary-Size File for Testing
You Don't Have Enough Smileys?

## 51.1 We Are Finally Getting to the Bottom of the Bucket

OK. This is it: the miscellaneous chapter in the miscellaneous section of a rather miscellaneous book!

This chapter contains the articles that we edited out of other chapters but didn't want to throw away, stuff that really didn't fit anywhere else, and even a few things that probably would have fit in quite well elsewhere...but were added so late that they would have given our production staff fits if we'd tried to shoehorn them into earlier chapters!

- TOR

50.12 Common UNIX Error Messages |  | 51.2 How UNIX Keeps Time