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Did anyone search github yet for similar head | tail tricks ? I doubt it was invented just for this.
by sega_sai 3y ago
Did anyone search github yet for similar head | tail tricks ? I doubt it was invented just for this.
- nabakin 3y agoOpportunity to write a paper
- rmast 3y agoMaybe some analysis of odd patterns in entropy of binary files committed to repositories could pick out some to look at a bit deeper?
- saagarjha 3y agoIt’s clever but not entirely novel, this is kind of the intended usecase for these
- rmast 3y agoThe use of head/tail for deobfuscation also isn’t visible as plain text in the repository or release tarball, which makes searching for its use in other repositories more difficult (unless a less obfuscated version was tested elsewhere).
- oogali 3y agoI've generally seen this with Unix installers from commercial software vendors. You get a giant .sh file that displays a license, asks you to accept, then upon acceptance, cats itself, pipes through head/tail, into cpio to extract the actual assets.