[ILUG] [TOTD] find error corresponding to number

[Liam Bedford]

Colm MacCarthaigh wrote:

>On Fri, May 07, 2004 at 01:02:13PM +0100, kevin lyda wrote:
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>>hm.  we should have a competition each month to come up with the tiniest
>>program in whatever language to acomplish some trivial task.
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>here's the source for "true" on solaris:
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>colmmacc at prodigy (~) $ cat /usr/bin/true
>#!/usr/bin/sh
>#       Copyright (c) 1984, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989 AT&T
>#         All Rights Reserved
>
>#       THIS IS UNPUBLISHED PROPRIETARY SOURCE CODE OF AT&T
>#       The copyright notice above does not evidence any
>#       actual or intended publication of such source code.
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>#ident  "@(#)true.sh    1.6     93/01/11 SMI"   /* SVr4.0 1.4   */
>colmmacc at prodigy (~) $ 
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at least it's not 9K of compiled C with things like
bash-2.05a$ /bin/true --help
Usage: /bin/true [ignored command line arguments]
  or:  /bin/true OPTION
Exit with a status code indicating success.

These option names may not be abbreviated.

  --help      display this help and exit
  --version   output version information and exit

Report bugs to <bug-sh-utils at gnu.org>.

L.