So if you've read this entry, you know that I got a crush link email sent to me. Then I mentioned here that I wrote a script to find out who my crush was... Here are the details

The script I wrote, admittedly a quick hack, takes all the hints mentioned in this entry into account... At the moment, It works purely under the assumption that the other person's e-mail resides in the andrew.cmu.edu domain and you must run it under AFS (in your andrew acct). Unless you can get a hold of other domain's /etc/passwd file, that is... Eeeenyway... so this is what I did

% ./crushcrack.py --ul=6 | wc -l ( hint #1 )
3923 (this is the number of matches)
% ./crushcrack.py --ul=6 --fl=6 | wc -l ( hint #1, #3 )
1066 (getting better...)
% ./crushcrack.py --ul=6 --fl=6 --ll=5 | wc -l ( hint #1, #3, #4 )
495 (much better, but still a bit too many...)
% ./crushcrack.py --ul=6 --fl=6 --ll=5 --fp="^[klmno]+\w*" | wc -l ( hint #1, #3, #4, #5 )
90 (voila!)
Being the lazy bum that I am, I just went ahead and added hint #6
% ./crushcrack.py --ul=6 --fl=6 --ll=5 --fp="^[klmno]+\w*" --c | wc -l
77 (oh, babyee.....)
Then, I realized that I should take advantage of the Asian name hack that I put in. :) So I ran it again with the Asian name hack
% ./crushcrack.py --ul=6 --fl=6 --ll=5 --fp="^[klmno]+\w*" --c -a | wc -l
77 (It didn't make a difference.)

Looking at the 77 matches is rather interesting, I must say..... I don't think I recoznize any of the names... ^^;... The sad thing is that the first thing that came to my mind after getting the results was the thought that any 3l33t UNIX sys admin could probably have written a 5 liner that did the same thing using awk and sed... I just killed the intense desire to optimize the script or write a shell script and just went to sleep... I've got bigger fish to fry... zzzZZZ

UPDATE: You'll notice that the number of matches have changed. I noticed that I had duplicate userids in the list, so I fixed that and the counts went down by almost half!!