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From: Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com>
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Subject: Re: UNIX Humour 
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> The original comment was supposed to read "self-compiling", but I like
> your modification too :)  Don't forget the set -x, or a compile error
> will result in errors running and removing ${0%%.c}.

:-)

Actually this is a useful thing to do.  For files containing
a library of functions I tend to add main() to test out these
functions like so:

#ifdef	 TESTING
int main(int argc, char**argv) {
	...
}
#endif

Now I can write a self-testing .c file!