Can someone check for me if this works on *nix systems? It's my first obfu....
#! /usr/bin/perl/

use strict;my $string="~^^..o^.(_)^X.#^~^^..o^.//^X.#^~^^..o_r^.(_.^X.
+#^~^^..o.r^.//^X.#^~^^..o_er^.(_.^X.#^~^^..o.er^.//^X.#^~^^..o_ker^.(
+_.^X.#^~^^..o.ker^.//^X.#^~^^..o_cker^.(_.^X.#^~^^..o.cker^.//^X.#^~^
+^..o_acker^.(_.^X.#^~^^..o.acker^.//^X.#^~^^..o_hacker^.(_.^X.#^~^^..
+o.hacker^.//^X.#^~^^..o__hacker^.(_.^X.#^~^^..o._hacker^.//^X.#^~^^..
+o_l_hacker^.(_.^X.#^~^^..o.l_hacker^.//^X.#^~^^..o_rl_hacker^.(_.^X.#
+^~^^..o.rl_hacker^.//^X.#^~^^..o_erl_hacker^.(_.^X.#^~^^..o.erl_hacke
+r^.//^X.#^~^^..o_Perl_hacker^.(_.^X.#^~^^..o.Perl_hacker^.//^X.#^~^^.
+.o__Perl_hacker^.(_.^X.#^~^^..o._Perl_hacker^.//^X.#^~^^..o_r_Perl_ha
+cker^.(_.^X.#^~^^..o.r_Perl_hacker^.//^X.#^~^^..o_er_Perl_hacker^.(_.
+^X.#^~^^..o.er_Perl_hacker^.//^X.#^~^^..o_her_Perl_hacker^.(_.^X.#^~^
+^..o.her_Perl_hacker^.//^X.#^~^^..o_ther_Perl_hacker^.(_.^X.#^~^^..o.
+ther_Perl_hacker^.//^X.#^~^^..o_other_Perl_hacker^.(_.^X.#^~^^..o.oth
+er_Perl_hacker^.//^X.#^~^^..o_nother_Perl_hacker^.(_.^X.#^~^^..o.noth
+er_Perl_hacker^.//^X.#^~^^..o_another_Perl_hacker^.(_.^X.#^~^^..o.ano
+ther_Perl_hacker^.//^X.#^~^^..o__another_Perl_hacker^.(_.^X.#^~^^..o.
+_another_Perl_hacker^.//^X.#^~^^..o_t_another_Perl_hacker^.(_.^X.#^~^
+^..o.t_another_Perl_hacker^.//^X.#^~^^..o_st_another_Perl_hacker^.(_.
+^X.#^~^^..o.st_another_Perl_hacker^.//^X.#^~^^..o_ust_another_Perl_ha
+cker^.(_.^X.#^~^^..o.ust_another_Perl_hacker^.//^X.#^~^^..o_Just_anot
+her_Perl_hacker^.(_.^X.#^~^^..o.Just_another_Perl_hacker^.(_)^X.#^~^^
+..o..Just_another_Perl_hacker^.(_)^X.#^~^^..o...Just_another_Perl_hac
+ker^.(_)^X.#^~^^..o....Just_another_Perl_hacker^.(_)^X.#^~^^..o.....J
+ust_another_Perl_hacker^.(_)^X.#^~^^..o......Just_another_Perl_hacker
+^.(_)^X.#^~^^..o......Just_another_Perl_hacker^.(_)^X.#^~^^..o......J
+ust_another_Perl_hacker^.(_)^X.#^~^^..o......Just_another_Perl_hacker
+^.(_)^X.#^~^^..o......Just_another_Perl_hacker^.(_)^X.#^~^^..o......J
+ust_another_Perl_hacker^.(_)^X.#^~^^..o......Just_another_Perl_hacker
+^.(_)^X.#^~^^.........Just_another_Perl_hacker^^...^^";my $charToPrin
+t;sub printIndividual { my $n = shift; $charToPrint=substr($string,$n
+,1); if ($charToPrint eq ".") { print " ";}elsif($charToPrint eq "^")
+{print "\n";}elsif ($charToPrint eq "~"){select (undef,undef,undef,.2
+);system (CLS); } else{print "$charToPrint";}if($n<length($string)){p
+rintIndividual(($n+1));}}printIndividual (0);

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Cheers!
Petras

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Re: First Obfu
by teamster_jr (Curate) on Jun 30, 2003 at 17:25 UTC
    yep, and me on freebsd. except system (CLS) doesn't work - it works if you replace it with print "\ec"; (for vt100 systems) or system "clear". al
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      Thanks. I'll roam the monestary looking for branching based on shell. At first I wondered why people bothered with obfu. It's actually a great way to learn. And to learn what you need to learn. Appreciate the cross-system pointer.
      Cheers,
      Petras
      Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.

      -Howard Aiken
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Re: First Obfu
by zentara (Cardinal) on Jun 30, 2003 at 16:22 UTC
    Works for me on linux.
[reply]
      Thanks for checking. I'm quite a bit far from civilization (places with Linux boxes!), so all my Perl learning has been in a one-OS environment. Thanks for letting me know.

      Cheers!
      Petras
      Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.

      -Howard Aiken
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Re: First Obfu
by cored (Scribe) on Jul 02, 2003 at 14:03 UTC
    That code kick ass, i love it, and the trick for handling delays with the clear screen method :D, you have my eternal vote :D
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      It's kind of a throw back to the C64 days when you actualy had to buy a book to know where to poke sprites into place, so Ascii graphics and clrscr was the thing for animation! I might do some more like this. For better obfu, though, I should probably look into regexes for ways to hide the repeating string, "Just_another_Perl_hacker."
      Cheers!
      Petras
      Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.

      -Howard Aiken
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