Cody Boone Ferguson
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The location of the link is in the About menu under the 'Contacting the IOCCC' and above 'Thanks for the help'. At first I had it at the very bottom, under 'IOCCC markdown guidelines', but it seemed better to have it closer to contacting the IOCCC. This is the same location in the no JavaScript menu (which, for those who do not know or forget, is not a requirement except for some screen sizes). The top level Makefile has a new 'security' rule. Updated make help. Typo fixes in make help. SECURITY.html has had a few updates as well: change the wording of entry code is unsupported (it now says 'ALL CODE IN ALL IOCCC ENTRIES IS UNSUPPORTED!!') and it now links to the mkiocccentry repo and how to report a possible security vulnerability in that repo; as that IS supported - and since there was reference to discussing security concerns is in SECURITY.html - even though the entries will not receive security updates - it seemed a good idea to have a link to report such security issues in the mkiocccentry repo. Perhaps the FAQ needs to be updated for this too.
To build:
make all
To use:
./garry <input_file >output_file
Try:
./try.sh
Alternate code:
While it may not have been the intention of the author, the
judges noted that the C pre-processed version (with the #includes
left intact) looked very much like a rat "dropping core". See
garry.alt.c and judge for yourself!
Alternate build:
make alt
Alternate use:
./garry.alt <input_file >output_file
Alternate try:
./try.alt.sh
Judges' remarks:
The author was kind enough to provide a less obfuscated version of the source called garry.fmt.c.
Author's remarks:
This program is a file filter, designed to do environment-expansion and incorporating the ability to create binary from escaped data in the environment variables.
The calling syntax is pretty simple, just use it with stdio-redirection
or inside pipelines, e.g.:
./garry <file_to_convert >converted_file
or
cat all_my_files/* | ./garry | lp
The syntax of the conversion of the input file is as follows: To include the
value of an environment variable in the output file, place the name of the
variable between $-signs in the input, e.g.:
My Home-Directory is: $HOME$
I'm using the path: $PATH$
Unknown Env-variables or malformed expressions are ignored and kept intact.
Additionally, the filter replaces escaped octal values in the environment variables by their binary representation, e.g.:
$ TEST="\110\145\154\154\157"
$ export TEST
$ echo '$TEST$' | ./garry
Hello