well, they are. it's like reading keyboard macros. btw i think you meant to \ your *s

Oh, you are correct. Hn ate the formatting. The example is stolen from wikipedia. Lets try that again:

dc -e '_640320[0ksslk3^16lkd12+sk*-lm*lhd1+sh3^/smlxlj*sxll545140134+dsllm*lxlnk/ls+dls!=P]sP3^sj7sn[6sk1ddshsxsm13591409dsllPx10005v426880*ls/K3-k1/pcln14+snlMx]dsMx'

Cool, will save this. People should run this if they do not know what it does.

For those who are on NixOS and can’t find `dc`, it’s present in BusyBox.

    nix run nixpkgs#busybox -- dc -e '_640320[0ksslk3^16lkd12+sk*-lm*lhd1+sh3^/smlxlj*sxll545140134+dsllm*lxlnk/ls+dls!=P]sP3^sj7sn[6sk1ddshsxsm13591409dsllPx10005v426880*ls/K3-k1/pcln14+snlMx]dsMx'

> For those who are on NixOS and can’t find `dc`

    $ nix-locate -r 'bin/dc$' | grep -o '^\w.*\.out' | xargs basename -s .out
    plan9port
    gavin-bc
    busybox
    bc
    _9base

:)

Haha, thanks! I had completely forgotten about `nix2` commands. I’ll try to remember this one!

nix-locate is actually a third-party command, shipped with nix-index: https://github.com/nix-community/nix-index

make sure to check out the pregenerated databases, they're very convenient

Thank you very much! Seems very convenient. :)