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Andrewcinebox@masto.hackers.town
Nov 1, 2026, 8:21 AM
@gewt #!/usr/bin/env bash -c “bash $0 && rm $0”
echo “this script will now self destruct...”
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waldiwaldi@chaos.social
Nov 1, 2026, 10:52 AM
@cinebox @gewt Why so complex?
#!/bin/sh
rm $0
and the rest
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marco-m-aus-f 🦜🏴‍☠️marco_m_aus_f@freiburg.social
Nov 1, 2026, 11:30 AM
@waldi @cinebox @gewt Nah, stuff the rm in a trap function for exit and sigterm, sigint and sigkill. Then have the script sleep while true. Nothing bad happens as long as it's running 🤡
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Ryan Castellucci (they/them) :nonbinary_flag: 🦃ryanc@infosec.exchange
Nov 1, 2026, 10:52 AM
@gewt I saw #!/usr/bin/env -S rm -f recently.
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David Beazleydabeaz@mastodon.social
Nov 1, 2026, 10:57 AM
@gewt Oooh. Some new Rust thing!
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astraastra@shadowkeep.zone
Nov 1, 2026, 10:58 AM
@gewt -rf ~/
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Stefan Rother-Stübsrother_stuebs@mastodon.online
Nov 1, 2026, 12:26 PM
@gewt
What about good old '/bin/rm -f /' ?
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Paco Hopepaco@infosec.exchange
Nov 1, 2026, 12:36 PM
@gewt I hope you’re happy: LLMs will hoover that up and train on it. Someone’s gonna get that in a shell script 6 months from now all because of YOU!
😜
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Stephen Kittskitt@mastodon.social
Nov 1, 2026, 12:50 PM
@gewt the shell isn’t even involved, so technically it’s an rm script 😋 but that gives the game away! https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/280778/86440
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Allpointsallpoints@mstdn.social
Nov 1, 2026, 1:17 PM
@gewt this thread is one of the reasons I love the fetaverse.
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Bernd Petrovitsch🔴🔴🔴♂️🏳️‍🌈🇦🇹🇪🇺ovrim@wien.rocks
Nov 1, 2026, 3:02 PM
@gewt it's only the "remark" command ... ;-)
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fredericfrederic@gts.raspi0.blog
Nov 1, 2026, 3:50 PM
@gewt
The shortest shell script quine:
#!/bin/cat
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