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Created March 4, 2015 17:47
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#!/bin/sh
if [ $# -eq 0 ]; then
echo this script works when you run it without args
exit 0
fi
# the parser only reaches this syntactically-invalid line if you pass the script args,
# proving that Bourne-compatible shells don't have separate parse and evaluate passes.
esac ] $(`)"
# if this were most other languages, the program wouldn't run/compile at all
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