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<Jafet> (echo \'#!/bin/sh\'; echo \'a() { p=$(echo -n $(ps -p $1 -oppid | tail -1)); if ps -p $p -ocmd | tail -1 | egrep " \\| cat\\$"; then ps -p $1 -ocmd | tail -1; else a $p; fi }\'; echo \'a $$\') > bin/quine2 && quine2 a b c
author HackBot
date Fri, 01 Mar 2013 02:07:19 +0000
parents e037173e0012
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#!/bin/bash
if [ ! "$1" ]
then
    echo 'Look up what?'
    exit 1
fi

QUERY=`echo -n "$1" | od -t x1 -A n -w1000 | tr " " %`

lynx --cfg=/dev/null --lss=/dev/null \
    --dump --width=1000 'http://etymonline.com/?search='"$QUERY" |
    grep -A 100 ']'"$1" |
    sed 's/\[[0-9]*\]//g ; s/ Look up.*// ; s/  */ /g'