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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Rofl but what does it even compile down to? I could see a program that just concatenates and prints every string included in its source code

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Omg it really does - how is that so cute??