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Re:Man who thought opening a TXT file is fine thought wrong by nolok on Saturday April 03, 2021 @05:46PM (#26685023)
I'm no specialist but I'm inclined to disagree, for me it's the difference between the ability to run an arbitrary binary and the ability to read/write an arbitrary filepath
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Re:Man who thought opening a TXT file is fine thought wrong by capitainenemo on Monday April 05, 2021 @07:53AM (#26697842)
They are imaginary paths in the bash executable. They aren't usable outside it. Thus the netcat analogy.
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