• palordrolap
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    114 months ago

    Fun fact: In a hilarious misuse of the #! script interpreter mechanism, on Linux (and similar operating systems), if you put #!/bin/cat as the first line of a file and make it executable, it’ll dump itself to the current output channel when called by name.

    Which is basically what you’re describing.

    See also: Perl, which will try to interpret almost anything as legitimate code if you don’t tell it not to.

    • Trigg
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      34 months ago

      I’d go for /usr/bin/strings personally, then it’ll allow binary junk too!