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The shell file that calculates the answer to life the universe and everything
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the_answer_to_life_the_universe_and_everything.sh
#!/bin/sh
answer() { echo -e "\n\nAnswer: 42\n"; exit; }
trap answer TRAP INT HUP;
while [ 1 ]; do head -10 /dev/urandom | hexdump -C | head -3 | egrep --color=auto '[a-f][0-9a-f]'; sleep .1; done
# to run -
# curl https://raw.github.com/gist/1074226/the_answer_to_life_the_universe_and_everything.sh | sh
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