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    From Sean Dennis@618:618/1 to All on Wednesday, December 13, 2023 23:19:12
    Christmas song for unix hackers

    better !pout !cry
    better watchout
    lpr why
    santa claus < north pole >town

    cat /etc/passwd >list
    ncheck list
    ncheck list
    cat list | grep naughty >nogiftlist
    cat list | grep nice >giftlist
    santa claus < north pole >town

    who | grep sleeping
    who | grep awake
    who | egrep 'bad|good'
    for (goodness sake) {
    be good
    }

    (by Frank Carey, AT&T Bell Laboratories, 1985)

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  • From Zip@618:500/27 to Sean Dennis on Thursday, December 14, 2023 16:23:17
    Hello Sean!

    On 13 Dec 2023, Sean Dennis said the following...

    Christmas song for unix hackers

    *lol*

    Very nice, Sean! Thanks for posting this!

    Best regards
    Zip

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  • From Sean Dennis@618:618/1 to Zip on Thursday, December 14, 2023 17:15:48
    Hello, Zip!

    Replying to a message of Zip to Sean Dennis:

    Very nice, Sean! Thanks for posting this!

    I've seen that floating around for years and it still makes me laugh.

    -- Sean

    --- FleetStreet 1.27.1
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  • From August Abolins@618:250/1.9 to Sean Dennis on Thursday, December 14, 2023 18:17:00
    Hello Sean Dennis!

    ** On Wednesday 13.12.23 - 23:19, Sean Dennis wrote to All:

    Christmas song for unix hackers

    better !pout !cry

    [...]

    (by Frank Carey, AT&T Bell Laboratories, 1985)

    Very good. I wasn't exposed to unix until 1992.

    These days, there is likely a more current version in
    javascript, java, go, rust, etc..

    --
    ../|ug

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