Hi all,
your 2004 'last' probably doesn't produce the same output as his 1991 'last'. I may be wrong, but $_ x= should just duplicate $_ the number of times on the rhs, which is 0 or 1. That is, it leaves $_ unchanged, or it sets it to "". That is, the line acts as a grep. Replacing (.*) by (..:..) would make $1 and $2 represent hours w/ last-2004. The other conditions in the rhs I don't grok. Hth, Etienne PS : Wasn't this code commented? On Sat, Apr 10, 2004 at 08:56:26PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # # I recently came across this impenetrable Wall code: # # last|perl -pe '$_ x=/(..:..)...(.*)/&&"'$1'"ge$1&&"'$1'"lt$2' # That's gonna be tough for Randal to beat... :-) # -- Larry Wall in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> # # What on earth does this do? I get no output when I run it on my Linux # system. ( >*gulp*< ) # # Is there any tool that would help decoding this thing? # # Thanks, # # kj -- Etienne Grossmann ------ http://www.cs.uky.edu/~etienne
