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I guess the comments throw off my expectations, too. Since when does "wc" stand for "number of lines in a file"? The dictionary says it's a British toilet (a.k.a. "the loo") and it could be an acronym for word count, so I was trying to figure out how that was counting words.

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Re: Re: Re: what's this loo code? (*slurp*)
by pfaut (Priest) on Feb 05, 2003 at 04:11 UTC

    The wc utility counts words, lines, and characters in a file. wc -l tells wc to only display the number of lines. 

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print map { my ($m)=1<<hex($_)&11?' ':'';
$m.=substr('AHJPacehklnorstu',hex($_),1) }
split //,'2fde0abe76c36c914586c';

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