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Is this going to murder those fancy shell scripts that self-extract a program appended to the tail, which is really just an encoded blob of some kind, presumabl

• talideon 2y ago
  Not if it was done competently. Shar files and the likes shouldn't contain NULs, even if they contain compressed data. The appended data should be binary safe.
  • Thiez 2y ago
    And in case your data does contain NULs, presumably one could add a layer of base64 encoding. Not nice for the filesize, but also much less likely to upset a text editor when the script is opened (even in the absence of NUL bytes).