[TUHS] The most surprising Unix programs
Dave Horsfall
dave at horsfall.org
Sat Mar 21 07:57:21 AEST 2020
On Fri, 20 Mar 2020, Richard Salz wrote:
> A cool thing about tools is that you never know how it will be used.
Indeed. I once wrote a shell script that basically acted as an n-way
"cut" i.e. you specify the columns you wanted to extract and they ended up
on the corresponding file descriptors. Ran into all sorts of bugs, as the
"obvious" solution didn't work.
> Bach's prelude in C major from Well-Tempered Clavier book I, written in pure
> (GNU) sed: https://github.com/laserbat/bach.sed
I have the Towers of Hanoi written in sendmail.cf, meaning that Sendmail
is Turing-complete :-) I can't remember who wrote it.
-- Dave
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