[Nottingham] Shell programming

[Dan Mackdermott]

On Sat, 18 Dec 2004, Martin wrote:

> Martin wrote:
> [...]
>> 
>> function rot13
>> {
>>         echo $@ | sed 
>> y/abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ/nopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmNOPQRSTUVWXYZABCDEFGHIJKLM/
>> }
>> export -f rot13
> [...]
>
> I left /that/ uglyness in there some drunken night?!!!

It may be ugly but it works!  ;-)

> A little contest for the bashers: What's the shortest bash rot13 function?

It's not really bash but in one line?...

function rot13 { echo $@ | tr a-zA-Z n-za-mN-ZA-N; }; export -f rot13

> (OK, so sed is rather useful (:-))

...and perl...and awk...and etc etc  :-p

Cheers,

Dan


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