Re: most egregious modulus program

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From: Root Boy Jim
Date: Sun, 25 Aug 1991 18:21

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In <1991Aug23.234156.21347@netlabs.com> lwall@netlabs.com (Larry Wall) writes:
>[Sorry 'bout all the crossposting, but there's no rec.nroff.abuse yet...]

Nor is there rec.nroff.poetry.

>The ;login: journal graciously printed my entry to the "Most Egregious
>Misuse of Unix Utilities" contest...

>    `echo "10^$1" | bc | tr -d 1 | sed 's/0/0 /g'` \&

This is definitely egregious.
It uses too many processes.
Fold the tr command into the sed.
-- 
		Desolation Row Jimmy <rbj@uunet>

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From: rbj@uunet.uu.net (Root Boy Jim)
Subject: Re: most egregious modulus program
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