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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.
by 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 agoAnd 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).