A powerful demonstration of the ternary operator!

ternary.sh

#!/bin/bash

cat << EOF > ./ternary.c
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <time.h>

int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
    int a, b, c, d, e, f, g;

    srand(time(NULL));

    a = rand() % 10 + 1;
    b = rand() % 10 + 1;
    c = rand() % 10 + 1;
    d = rand() % 10 + 1;

    e = (f = (a > b ? a : b)) > (g = (c > d ? c : d)) ? f : g;

    printf("a = %d, b = %d, c = %d, d = %d, max = %d\n", a, b, c, d, e);

    return 0;
}
EOF

gcc ./ternary.c -o ternary; for i in `seq 1 10`; do sleep 1 && ./ternary; done; rm -rf ./ternary ./ternary.c