UNIX Humour

Dan Nelson dnelson at allantgroup.com
Wed Sep 17 14:54:32 PDT 2003


In the last episode (Sep 17), Bakul Shah said:
> Don't you mean:
> 
> #if 0 /* Magic self-executing C source code.  Run "hello.c"
> gcc -Wall -O $0 -o ${0%%.c}
> ${0%%.c}
> rm ${0%%.c}
> exit 0
> 
> */
> #endif

The original comment was supposed to read "self-compiling", but I like
your modification too :)  Don't forget the set -x, or a compile error
will result in errors running and removing ${0%%.c}.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com


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