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a simple bashism-powered quine

Saturday, 2. February 2008, 21:30:43



$ /tmp/foo
#!/bin/bash

echo "$(< $0)"




$ cat /tmp/foo
#!/bin/bash

echo "$(< $0)"



Update: just to clarify, this is a joke, not a real quine :wink:

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Comments

Anonymous 2. February 2008, 22:11

Ed Schouten writes:

#!/bin/sh
cat $0

Anonymous 3. February 2008, 09:54

Anonymous writes:

Fail.

Anonymous 3. February 2008, 10:00

Smartass writes:

$ cat factorial
#!/bin/sh

echo $(

Anonymous 3. February 2008, 13:17

Alfred M. Szmidt writes:

$ touch quine
$ chmod a+x quine
$ ./quine
$

You canot get it much shorter, or simpler than that.

Anonymous 31. May 2008, 17:57

Anonymous writes:

THIS is Bash quine!

$ cat > quine.sh
b=\' c=\\ a='echo b=$c$b c=$c$c a=$b$a$b; echo $a'
echo b=$c$b c=$c$c a=$b$a$b; echo $a

$ chmod +x quine.sh
$ ./quine.sh
b=\' c=\\ a='echo b=$c$b c=$c$c a=$b$a$b; echo $a'
echo b=$c$b c=$c$c a=$b$a$b; echo $a




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