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From: tkacik@rphroy.UUCP (Tom Tkacik)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: shortest self-reproducing Perl program
Message-ID: <22584@rphroy.UUCP>
Date: 22 Mar 90 16:51:51 GMT
References: <1990Mar20.203516.8429@iwarp.intel.com> <15274@bfmny0.UU.NET>
Reply-To: tkacik@rphroy.UUCP (Tom Tkacik)
Organization: GM Research Labs, Warren, MI
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In article <15274@bfmny0.UU.NET> tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff) writes:
>Well this works slightly differently:

>	#! /usr/bin/perl
>	system "cat $0";


Let's take this one to the extreme. And we don't even need perl ;-(.

Just put the following line in the file junk, and make it executable.
		#!/bin/cat junk


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