Nice script. Makes good use of awk, cut, and tr. You also use comments to make the script easier to read, including a fake "main" method which makes the script entry point clear. I've avoided writing shell scripts in the past because the technology always seemed archaic next to Ruby, but I...

The blog post at http://uplinkfan.blogspot.com/2011/10/g ... bible.html has the properly formatted Hackers Manifesto, but beware, this blog post is a full spoiler for how to decrypt chapter 3 of the Uplink game bible.

One way to get Book 3 of the game bible is to buy the Uplink Developer CD, which Introversion still sells. All the books of the game bible are unencrypted on the Developer CD. Since you decrypted the readme.txt file that comes with book 2 of the game bible, you saw the encoded message at the end of ...