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My Perl “Hello World”

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I spent some time working backwards from the ASCII values of “Hello, world!”, creating a mathematic relationship between the characters and then obfuscating the pattern of those characters. Add a little bit of nasty looking Perl and you are left with a very ugly variation of the “Hello world” program: #!/usr/bin/perlmy ($a,$b,$c,$d,$x,$z) = qw(100 3 […]

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Self modifying shell script – unrolling a loop

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Some shell scripting languages read scripts as they are interpreted. I wrote this script as an experiment in looping without a loop. This functioned on an older version of ksh on HP-UX, but I haven’t been able to find a newer version of a shell that this still works on.# This script returns 0 through […]

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