From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: dnied@tiscali.it (Dario Niedermann) Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2016 19:40:11 +0200 Subject: [TUHS] Shell control through external commands In-Reply-To: <201607151647.u6FGlqvW037575@tahoe.cs.Dartmouth.EDU> References: <201607151647.u6FGlqvW037575@tahoe.cs.Dartmouth.EDU> Message-ID: <20160910174011.GF5970@dnied%tiscali.it> Il 15/07/2016 alle 18:47, Doug McIlroy ha scritto: > Gerard Holzmann took the true and false commands as > the jumping-off point for "Code Inflation", an > installment of his "Reliable Code" blog and column > in IEE Software. An informative, but depressing, read: > http://spinroot.com/gerard/pdf/Code_Inflation.pdf I just reclaimed 56K of disk space by replacing the GNU versions of /bin/true and /bin/false with hand-made reproductions of the earliest versions. I never knew that a shell script could work without a shebang line.