From: Joshua Ballanco <jballanc@...>
Date: 2009-06-01T14:59:02+09:00
Subject: Re: [QUIZ] Quine (#207)

On May 31, 2009, at 10:45 PM, Martin DeMello wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 10:00 AM, Matthew Williams  
> <matt@harpstar.com> wrote:
>>
>> Version 3, cheating (unix only):
>>
>> puts `cat #{$0}`
>
> here's my extremely cheating 10-byte version:
>
> # sudo ln -s /bin/cat /usr/local/bin/c
> # echo | ruby -p q.rb
> $_=`c #$0`
>
> martin

That was essentially my original cheat, then my friend pointed out  
this simple modification to get to 8 bytes:

 > cat a
$><<`a`

 > ruby a
$><<`a`

 > which a
/usr/local/bin/a

 > cat `which a`
#!/usr/bin/env ruby
puts '$><<`a`'


- Josh