Randall R Schulz wrote:
On Saturday 02 July 2005 12:07, ken wrote:
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for DVDs in Linux screw the MPAA and ; do dig $DVDs.z.zoy.org ; done| perl -ne 's/\.//g; print pack("H224",$1) if(/^x([^z]*)/)' |gunzip
What did I lose?
It never hurts to look at the code and understand what it's going to do, especially since you are, in effect, giving some other coder access to your shell.
Put this in a file an execute it:
-==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==- #!/bin/bash --norc
for DVDs in Linux screw the MPAA and; do dig $DVDs.z.zoy.org; done \ |perl -ne 's/\.//g; print pack("H224",$1) if(/^x([^z]*)/)' \ |gunzip -==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==-
Randall Schulz
Good points. Also, it's not a good idea to run any strange scripts as root. Personally, I created a user (called "test") which is used to run/test such scripts. Back to the script itself.... I added a "set -x" above the code and got this output: + dig Linux.z.zoy.org + perl -ne 's/\.//g; print pack("H224",$1) if(/^x([^z]*)/)' + gunzip + dig screw.z.zoy.org + dig the.z.zoy.org + dig MPAA.z.zoy.org + dig and.z.zoy.org gunzip: stdin: not in gzip format So I'm still having the same problem, i.e., not in gzip format. -- A lot of us are working harder than we want, at things we don't like to do. Why? ...In order to afford the sort of existence we don't care to live. -- Bradford Angier