Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide: An in-depth exploration of the art of shell scripting
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# Chapter 14. Recess Time

This bizarre little intermission gives the reader a chance to relax and maybe laugh a bit.

> Fellow Linux user, greetings! You are reading something which
> will bring you luck and good fortune. Just e-mail a copy of
> this document to 10 of your friends. Before making the copies,
> send a 100-line Bash script to the first person on the list
> at the bottom of this letter. Then delete their name and add
> yours to the bottom of the list.
> Don't break the chain! Make the copies within 48 hours.
> Wilfred P. of Brooklyn failed to send out his ten copies and
> woke the next morning to find his job description changed
> to "COBOL programmer." Howard L. of Newport News sent
> out his ten copies and within a month had enough hardware
> to build a 100-node Beowulf cluster dedicated to playing
> Tuxracer. Amelia V. of Chicago laughed at this letter
> and broke the chain. Shortly thereafter, a fire broke out
> in her terminal and she now spends her days writing
> documentation for MS Windows.
> Don't break the chain! Send out your ten copies today!

Courtesy 'NIX "fortune cookies", with some alterations and many apologies

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