Thompson's self-reproducing program

Gary K. Sloane sloane at noscvax.UUCP
Fri Aug 24 02:32:24 AEST 1984


Compile this program as:  cc -o s s.c


main()
{
system("cat s.c");
}


My friend Steve suggests the following alias in your .login:

		alias cat 'c \!*'

With the obvious byte-reducing benefits to s.c when modified accordingly...


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