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From: rsc@research.att.com
To: culliton@clark.net, rc@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu
Subject: re: 99 bottles in an rc shell script.
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 1997 21:29:52 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <97May1.024622edt.24649@hawkwind.utcs.utoronto.ca> (raw)

This introduces a little more code in return for
losing the count array.

#!/bin/rc
# rc shell version of 99 bottles of beer
# by Tom Culliton (culliton@clark.net)
# revised by Russ Cox (rsc@research.att.com)

bottles = bottles; one = one
digits = (9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0)
for(i in $digits) for(j in $digits) { 
	n = $i$j
	if(~ $i 0) n = $j
	if(! ~ $n 0) {
		if(~ $n 1) { bottles = bottle; one = it }
		if(! ~ $n 99) {
			echo $n $bottles 'of beer on the wall.'
			echo
		}
		echo $n $bottles 'of beer on the wall,'
		echo $n $bottles 'of beer,'
		echo 'take' $one 'down and pass it around,'
	}
}
echo 'no more bottles of beer on the wall!'



             reply	other threads:[~1997-05-01  6:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1997-05-01  1:29 rsc [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1997-05-01 21:13 Mark K. Gardner
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
1997-04-30 22:26 Tom Culliton
1997-05-01  1:57 ` David Luyer
1997-05-01 16:33 ` Paul Haahr

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