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The Unix Koans of Master Foo

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  Master Foo once said to a visiting programmer: “There is
  more Unix-nature in one line of shell script than there is
  in ten thousand lines of C.”

This is missing a few stories that are on the canonical site (which is linked, fortunately). One of the highlights of my life was collaborating with Eric in writing "Master Foo and the Recruiter."

It seems to be linked.

http://catb.org/esr/writings/unix-koans/recruiter.html

Web Archive and Archive.is links against Slashdot effect (502):

https://web.archive.org/web/20171223200014/http://rationalfi...

https://archive.fo/Tbzps

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