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Code-golf is a competition to solve a particular problem in the fewest bytes of source code.

10 votes

Print a Christmas Tree

Shell script, 44 characters printf %9c\\n \* 0|sed ':x p;s/ 0/000/;tx d' Prints this tree: * 0 000 00000 0000000 000000000 00000000000 0000000000000 000000 …
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Tips for golfing in Bash

Use tail recursion to make loops shorter: These are equivalent in behavior (though probably not in memory/PID usage): while :;do body; done f()(body;f);f body;exec $0 body;$0 And these are roughly …
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2 votes

It's time for a clock challenge!

Bash (3 and 4): 90 bytes d=(`sed s/./-/g<$0`);let `date +h=%H,m=%M`;echo $h ${d:0:m}' '$[++h%24] ${d:m} sleep 5 $0 Due to the use of $0, this script must be put into a file, not pasted into an inte …
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