Path: athena.cs.uga.edu!emory!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ames!lll-winken!looking!funny-request From: frank@cis.ohio-state.edu (Frank Adelstein) Newsgroups: rec.humor.funny Subject: The Search for Truth (or /bin/true revisited) Keywords: maybe, computer Message-ID: [S3b8.62ca@looking.on.ca] Date: 26 Mar 92 00:30:07 GMT Organization: The Ohio State University, Department of Computer and Information Science Lines: 36 Approved: funny@clarinet.com [this one's original --FA] In article [S376.6e6f@looking.on.ca] lance@roi.ca41.csd.mot.com (Lance Norskog) writes: ]This the /bin/true shell script from original unix: ]You see, an empty shell script does nothing and returns True. ]Here is the /bin/true shell script from AT&T Unix V.3.2: [just a copyright notice] Well, here is Sun's /bin/true: #! /bin/sh # # @(#)true.sh 1.5 88/02/07 SMI; from UCB # exit 0 Its revision number is 1.5. This put me in a philosophical mood, so I so I set out to find the original or absolute truth. After much speculation around here, here is the Top 5 List of what /bin/true used to be... 1.4) exit 1.3) exit 1 1.2) 42 1.1) test !`/bin/false` (drum roll) 1.0) echo true -- Selected by Brad Templeton. MAIL your joke (jokes ONLY) to funny@clarinet.com Attribute the joke's source if at all possible. A Daemon will auto-reply. Remember: Always give your jokes a descriptive "Subject:" line. Don't use "joke" or "submission" or "joke submission," please.
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