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# SPACE LAUNCH

NOTE: space launch is now maintained here:
https://tildegit.org/cmccabe/spacelaunch
(It was moved to facilitate involvement of other developers.)

A multi-user take on the classic Unix  steam locomotive (sl) prank.

*Written by cmccabe on the Zaibatsu in 2019.*

Questions? Comments? Smart remarks? write to cmccabe.at.sdf.org

System users should create `~/.vroom` files that contain lines within
the configured limits of length and line numbers.  These .vroom files
will be fused together using space-age technology and launched into
orbit whenever this script is run.

-t, -m and -h switches are explained in the help:
    sl.sh -h

# KNOWN BUGS

line 29: ROCKET_PARTS=$(ls $HOME_DIR/*/.vroom | shuf -n $ROCKET_SIZE)
causes the following warning on systems with bash 4.4.12(2):
"warning: command substitution: ignored null byte in input"