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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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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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

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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..

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