GC6D8WX Hello World
Type: Mystery | Size: Micro | Difficulty: | Terrain:
By: SnailMan1 @ | Hide Date: 03/13/2016 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N38° 56.000 W104° 52.000 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 0
       

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Back in the dark ages new students to programming often wrote a "Hello World" program as there first exercise.  I wonder if that is still the practice today?  Shown below is my "Hello World" program using some of my favorite Linux commands such as sed, awk and tr.  I thought about using grep too, but I just stuck with sed.  If you have access to Linux you should be able to cut and paste right into your shell.  If not, then decoding by hand should be fairly straight forward.

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echo "Hello World" | \
awk -F '' '{ for (i = NF; i > 0; --i) { printf("%s", $i) } }' | \
od -An -t uC | tr ' ' '\n' | sed '/^$/d'| \
awk 'BEGIN {
    split("95:103:107:105:83:0:106:106:105:95:65:46", offset, ":")
    i = 0
}
{
     if ((i == 2) || (i == 8)) { print "." }
     print $1 - offset[++i]
}' | \
sed 's/^32/ /' | tr -d '\n'

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You can validate your puzzle solution with certitude.

Congrats to TinSparrow for the FTF!

Additional Waypoints

01/28/2018 By Kerewin0430
YamaGypsy arrived early for the hike and invited me to join her for a few caches. Quiet area today. Thanks for placing this one!

01/28/2018 By YamaGypsy
Cleaning out puzzles I've had on my solved list. Joined up with Kerewin0430 to make the find before today's hike. Tftc!

01/28/2018 By Team GPSaxophone
This cache inspired me to install a linux emulator on my Surface Pro 3. Getting the coords was super simple after that. I found myself in the right area today and made the short hike with the boys to retrieve it. TFTC!

01/28/2018 By KickBassMama
Tfth! Pretty easy when you have computer savvy friends

11/16/2017 By RPieperCO
Thanks for the fun puzzle cache! I had to get some help to plug in the puzzle and get the coords. That was at least a year ago! I was finally in the area after work today. What a great day to be out as the weather was perfect! Signed the log and snapped a couple pictures of the sunset. Great day! Thanks again for the puzzle cache!