diff --git a/1986/stein/README.md b/1986/stein/README.md
index c6c1a5ce4..b3a65a8e0 100644
--- a/1986/stein/README.md
+++ b/1986/stein/README.md
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ into 3 lines.  Join all lines into a single line to recreate
 the original file.
 
 
-The 015 in the above printf command produces a control-N.
+The `\015` in the above `printf(1)` command produces a control-N.
 
 One some machines, a control-M control-N arg is needed
 to get the command to output cleanly:
diff --git a/1986/stein/stein.sh b/1986/stein/stein.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..ea144dc53
--- /dev/null
+++ b/1986/stein/stein.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+#
+# try.sh - demonstrate IOCCC winner 1986/stein
+#
+
+# make sure CC is set so that when we do make CC="$CC" it isn't empty. Doing it
+# this way allows us to have the user specify a different compiler in an easy
+# way.
+if [[ -z "$CC" ]]; then
+    CC="cc"
+fi
+
+make CC="$CC" all >/dev/null || exit 1
+
+# clear screen after compilation so that only the entry is shown
+clear
+
+echo "$ ./stein \$(printf \"\\015\\015\"); echo" 1>&2
+./stein $(printf "\015\015"); echo
+
+echo "$ ./stein \$(printf \"\\014\\015\"); echo" 1>&2
+./stein $(printf "\014\015"); echo
+
+echo "$ ./stein" 1>&2
+./stein
diff --git a/thanks-for-help.md b/thanks-for-help.md
index c5af8919b..cc9789391 100644
--- a/thanks-for-help.md
+++ b/thanks-for-help.md
@@ -406,6 +406,9 @@ being longer (in 1986 a one liner could be longer) was split to three lines to
 avoid problems with news and mail but as it was the 'Best one liner' it is now
 one line.
 
+Cody also added the [stein.sh](/1986/stein/stein.sh) script which runs the two
+commands that we suggest in order to get it to show clean output.
+
 
 ## <a name="1986_wall"></a>[1986/wall](/1986/wall/wall.c) ([README.md](/1986/wall/README.md]))