You know you’re a geek when ….

you, while waiting for the grep command to finish, write a script like this:

#!/bin/sh

clear

export COLS=$(tput cols)

export ROWS=$(tput lines)

while(true)

do

XPOS=$(( $RANDOM % $COLS ))

YPOS=$(( $RANDOM % $ROWS ))

CHAR=$(( $(( $RANDOM % 143 )) + 33 ))

tput cup $YPOS $XPOS

export NCHAR=$(printf "%o" $CHAR)

echo -n -e "\\$NCHAR"

done

BjÃ¶rn
April 20, 2007

I prefer to call it “engineer boredom” in a case like this.

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