Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt

Re:Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt by wbh1 on Wednesday July 08, 2026 @06:36AM (#48830198)

I love this shirt! Here's a nice video from the actual designer about the process of making this shirt (including intentionally making it hard to OCR): https://youtu.be/jocGLiecpjU?t=526

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Re:Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt by speerer on Wednesday July 08, 2026 @07:25AM (#48830522)

Author here. Thank you so much for the link which I hadn't seen! I'm very happy to see this and I'm gratified that it was deliberately difficult to OCR, not just me.

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Re:Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt by heresie-dabord on Wednesday July 08, 2026 @07:04PM (#48838547)

As much as I hope for Peace, I would have suggested

echo "Fgnaq+sbe+Qrzbpenpl!" | tr 'A-Za-z+' 'N-ZA-Mn-za-m '

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Re:Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt by criddell on Wednesday July 08, 2026 @09:00AM (#48831370)

It would probably be quicker to type it in than figure out how to OCR it. It would be like typing in a game from a COMPUTE! magazine 45 years go.

https://archive.org/details/1983-01-compute-magazine/page/96...

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Re:Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt by wildzzz on Wednesday July 08, 2026 @01:50PM (#48834983)

At least that stuff was written in cleartext. You'd immediately know you just typed the wrong character if you saw PRONT on your screen.

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Re:Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt by marcus_holmes on Wednesday July 08, 2026 @09:41PM (#48839882)

This was my reaction!

OCR? oh my sweet summer child, you cannot know the days we spent typing in raw code from a magazine, and the joy when it finally ran.

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Re:Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt by VladVladikoff on Wednesday July 08, 2026 @11:29AM (#48833242)

I watched the link but I didn’t see where he talked about making it difficult to OCR? What exactly was done that made it difficult to OCR?

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Re:Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt by novia on Friday July 10, 2026 @04:51PM (#48865079)

https://youtu.be/jocGLiecpjU?t=750

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Re:Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt by fennecfoxy on Wednesday July 08, 2026 @11:45AM (#48833466)

But it's not hard to OCR? And I don't know why the article dedicates an entire section to it.

On a Samsung S24U I held down the "circle to search" homescreen button which brings up the AI tools interface (I don't know what it's officially called), held down on the text and copied the whole thing in one shot.

It took like 2 seconds.

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Re:Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt by kyusan0 on Wednesday July 08, 2026 @12:22PM (#48833912)

Did it get every character correct?

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Re:Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt by imp0cat on Thursday July 09, 2026 @08:10AM (#48844613)

I just tried, using https://tris.sherliker.net/assets/2026-07-04-cropped-script.... as a source and the answer is a resounding no.

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