Re: a question regarding resumes

[Win Bent x265 <whb@evtech.com>]

>In an interview situation, I don't know what grep -v does. (In normal
>life I use it a lot, but it's more of a reflex than conscious knowledge.)
>I have proven this fact in actual job interviews.

Good point - amazingly enough, even people with proven abilities have
been known to freeze up on job interviews.

I think a good question for a candidate would be "Write a shell
command to kill all processes named 'foo'", and see if the person comes
anywhere near the simplicity of the one-liner presented earlier, and if
they use xargs or some other method of possibly-multiple inputs.  I'm
less interested in whether canidiates know all the arguments to all the
commands, and more interested in seeing how they solve problems.

	- Win