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'\(.*[^/]\)//*[^/][^/]*//*$'
Satan?
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Message-Id: <9402050307.AA00889@osc.versant.com>
Subject: '\(.*[^/]\)//*[^/][^/]*//*$'
To: "The Rt. Rev. Wor. Dr. Y. Foo" <dryfoo@mit.edu>
Date: Fri, 4 Feb 94 19:07:07 PST
From: "strick -- strick AT versant DOT com -- henry strickland" <strick@osc.versant.com>
Cc: Subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu
In-Reply-To: <9402041630.AA01831@thelonious.MIT.EDU>; from "The Rt. Rev. Wor. Dr. Y. Foo" at Feb 4, 94 11:30 am
# From: dryfoo@MIT.EDU (The Rt. Rev. Wor. Dr. Y. Foo)
# To: <strick@versant.com>
#
# } expr \
# } ${1-.}'/' : '\(/\)[^/]*//*$' \
# } \| ${1-.}'/' : '\(.*[^/]\)//*[^/][^/]*//*$' \
# } \| .
#
# Okay. I give up. What is that?
#
# -- dr foo
I don't really know. It's probably patented or something.
I found it somewhere & thought it looked cool. But it's broken:
@nando /tmp 45 %
@nando /tmp 45 % cat > bob
expr \
${1-.}'/' : '\(/\)[^/]*//*$' \
\| ${1-.}'/' : '\(.*[^/]\)//*[^/][^/]*//*$' \
\| .
@nando /tmp 46 %
@nando /tmp 46 % +x bob
@nando /tmp 47 %
@nando /tmp 47 % bob The Rt. Rev. Wor. Dr. Y. Foo
.
@nando /tmp 48 % bob spool/cron/crontabs/strick
spool/cron/crontabs
@nando /tmp 49 % bob /etc/dp/conf
/etc/dp
@nando /tmp 50 % bob
.
@nando /tmp 51 % bob /dryfoo@MIT.EDU/
/
@nando /tmp 52 % bob ///dryfoo@MIT.EDU///
bogus-> .
@nando /tmp 53 %
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Message-Id: <shoop.1110759267Q@tigger.jvnc.net>
Date: Fri, 4 Feb 94 14:20:27 +0000
From: "dhan (Dan Shoop)" <shoop@horton.farsef.com>
Subject: Satan?
To: "Humor @ UMO" <Humor@umrl1629.umeres.maine.edu>
