3/4     This is good:
jose             CP       67.121.94.23      3:14PM  1:39 cat /etc/motd.public
        How do you cat something as short as the motd for over 1.5 hours?
        "So the guy at the bar says, 'that's no cat, that's my wife!'" hahahh!
        \_ you can pipe it through "more"
           \_ I guess...  why not just 'more $file'?
              \_ because $file expands to whatever $file is before the command
                 is execed.
                 \_ I was being generic.  I'll spell it out for the anal among
                    you and try again, "why not just 'more /etc/motd.public'?
        \_ or losing an ssh connection while executing the command.
          \_ Doesn't sshd use tricks to detect such stale sessions and kill
             them off, including all applications that belong to the same
             session?
          \_ maybe but it's pretty funky dropping a connection in the split
             second it takes to cat the motd.  im suspicious of this behavior.