Re: convolutions

[Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>]

On 11/06/2015 09:37 PM, Mikael Magnusson wrote:
> A smart thing to include when asking for a simpler way to do an 
> obfuscated thing is what it is you're actually trying to do. Saves 
> people the effort of trying to deobfuscate your code first. It's also 
> super unclear what you mean by "expanding $red into native". 

... expanding color variables, eg. " ${red} " into their native " \e[31;1m " in a file.

That isn't clear? Variables holding color codes seem like a very routine thing  to me, there are many of them as a standard part of the shell. If you have some long string with color variables ( eg. "$_red" ) in it, and you echo the string, the colors execute, but if you save that same string to a file and 'cat' it, the color variables do not expand--it is necessary to convert them to the actual escape codes. My code snippet does that, I'm just wondering if it's as simple as it can be.