From: "Mark K. Gardner" <mkgardne@cs.uiuc.edu>
To: rc@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu
Subject: re: 99 bottles in an rc shell script.
Date: Thu, 1 May 1997 17:13:39 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <199705012113.QAA09988@pertsserver.cs.uiuc.edu> (raw)
I had to join in the fun (even though I don't drink beer).
This one not only drinks beer, it also eats CPU.
(You get a test mode free of charge by typing "beer <num>".
It may or may not use builtins exclusively...
depending on your philosophy.)
--
Mark K. Gardner (mkgardne@cs.uiuc.edu)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Real-Time Systems Laboratory
--
=== File: beer ===
#!/bin/rc
# rc shell version of 99 bottles of beer
# by Tom Culliton (culliton@clark.net)
# revised by Mark Gardner (mkgardne@cs.uiuc.edu)
# Supply the path to this script...
again = `{pwd}^/beer
if (~ $#* 0) {
count = 99
} else {
count = $1
}
bottles = bottles; one = one
if (! ~ $count 0) {
if (~ $count 1) {bottles = bottle; one = it}
if (! ~ $count 99) {
echo $count $bottles 'of beer on the wall.'
echo
}
echo $count $bottles 'of beer on the wall,'
echo $count $bottles 'of beer,'
echo 'take' $one 'down and pass it around,'
$again `{expr $count - 1}
} else {
echo 'no more bottles of beer on the wall!'
}
next reply other threads:[~1997-05-02 1:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-05-01 21:13 Mark K. Gardner [this message]
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1997-05-01 19:28 Byron Rakitzis
1997-05-01 17:14 Tom Culliton
1997-05-01 5:02 Tom Culliton
1997-05-01 4:03 Tom Culliton
1997-05-01 1:29 rsc
1997-04-30 22:26 Tom Culliton
1997-05-01 1:57 ` David Luyer
1997-05-01 16:33 ` Paul Haahr
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