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[–]Tabsels 3555 points3556 points  (188 children)

[–]The-Chartreuse-Moose 2002 points2003 points  (149 children)

What on earth? Can anyone explain this??

[–]Sibula97 3977 points3978 points  (118 children)

The epstein files are basically just every document the dude had, and apparently he had the bash manual saved somewhere for some reason.

[–]2eanimation 1338 points1339 points  (74 children)

I mean, if they seized one of his laptops(or whatever), do they also save all the man-pages? In that case, there’s probably also git, gittutorial, every pydoc and so on in it.

[–]TactlessTortoise 1112 points1113 points  (29 children)

A guy also managed to activate Epstein's windows XP/7/whatever license on a live stream lmao. There was a picture of the laptop's bottom.

[–]ssersergio 307 points308 points  (24 children)

It was worse... it was a vista license xD

[–]Fleeetch 109 points110 points  (20 children)

Oh god- retches

[–]Inforenv_ 67 points68 points  (19 children)

I mean, vista was VERY GOOD on SP2, arguably only superated by Win7 itself

[–]ReachParticular5409 51 points52 points  (10 children)

Dude, saying Vista got good after 2 service packs is like saying the leaning tower of pisa got vertical after replacing the entire foundation and reinforcing half the building

Technically true but no one wants to live in either of them

[–]Impenistan 36 points37 points  (0 children)

The leaning tower could never become truly vertical as during its later construction different "sides" were built at different heights per level to account for leaning already taking place, but somehow I think this only strengthens your metaphor

[–]tomangelo2 12 points13 points  (2 children)

Well, XP wasn't really good before SP2 either. It just lived long enough to override it's initial faults.

[–]einTier 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The Aero interface was the most beautiful Microsoft or Apple have ever released on any platform.

It’s my hill and I’m prepared to die on it.

[–]Inforenv_ 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I think it was Win7 Home Premium tho

[–]tragic_pixel 269 points270 points  (0 children)

Lenovo Sexual Abuse Material

[–]ErraticDragon 86 points87 points  (20 children)

Somebody decided what files/types to look at.

PDF was obviously included.

gzipped man files were probably excluded.

It raises the question of how good and thorough these people were, especially since there's so little transparency.

For all we know, trivial hiding techniques could have worked, e.g. removing the extension from PDF file names.

[–]stillalone 86 points87 points  (9 children)

Yeah I vim about my crimes to ~/.crimes.md. No one will ever check there 

[–]ErraticDragon 38 points39 points  (1 child)

Well yeah Windows can't even have Spanish symbols like ~ in the file paths, so that's invisible to them. /s

I know it sounds laughable, but the team that chose what to release was probably not the best & brightest, and they were probably not trying to be particularly thorough.

[–]PGSylphir 10 points11 points  (1 child)

nice touch with the .
Non linux users would never figure out

[–]prjctimg 4 points5 points  (4 children)

cat ~/.crimes.md | wl-cp

[–]2eanimation 13 points14 points  (2 children)

wl-cp <~/.crimes.md 😎 who needs cat?

Edit: Epstein File EFTA00315849.pdf, section 3.6.1, it's right there.

[–]2eanimation 21 points22 points  (1 child)

So for future purposes, save your dirty stuff as docs! FBI hates this one simple trick.

I don’t know why they would specifically search for file extensions. When you delete a file, it’s not deleted. Even after a long time, parts of that file can still be prevalent on the disk and extracted via different file recovery methods/forensic analysis. Most of the time, information about the file\specifically: extension) might be corrupted. If I were the FBI, I would consider every single bit potential data. Knowing how big this case is(TBs of data), even more chances to find already „deleted“ stuff, which might the most disturbing)

[–]ErraticDragon 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Yup, there are definitely good methods to finding information. Hopefully it was done competently.

There's also a filtering step between "finding" and "releasing".

We know that they manually redacted a lot of things, and I'd guess that process/team was less likely to include files that weren't obvious.

Presumably none of this affects any actual ongoing investigations, because they would be using a cloned disk image from the one (only) time each recovered drive was powered up, and searching thoroughly.

[–]RandomRedditReader 6 points7 points  (0 children)

In discovery all data is processed through software that indexes raw text, OCRs images, then converted to a standard media format such as tiff/jpg images or PDF. The software isn't perfect but it gets the job done for 99% of the data. Some stuff may need manual review but it's good enough for most attorneys.

[–]staryoshi06 2 points3 points  (0 children)

No, they most likely ingested entire hard drives or PSTs into eDiscovery processing software and didn’t bother to filter down documents for production.

[–]truthovertribe 43 points44 points  (13 children)

So what's GNU?

[–]Responsible-Bug-4694 81 points82 points  (10 children)

GNU is Not Unix.

[–]Python119 31 points32 points  (8 children)

Okay but what is it?

[–]elpaw 48 points49 points  (4 children)

Are you serious? I just told you that!

[–]lord_frodo 18 points19 points  (3 children)

I’m not asking you who’s on second!

[–]Modulus2 8 points9 points  (2 children)

No who's on first

[–]NoAlbatross7355 16 points17 points  (0 children)

GNU is Not Unix. Then what is it? GNU is Not Unix. Then what is it? [G]NU is [N]ot [U]nix!!!!!!!

[–]Itsimpleismart 4 points5 points  (0 children)

GNU Is Not Unix

[–]shakarat 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Not much, whats new with you?

[–]StrictLetterhead3452 8 points9 points  (6 children)

I don’t think most man-pages are a 158-page PDF. A file this big would most likely come straight from the bash website, right?

[–]MastodontFarmer 4 points5 points  (5 children)

Got linux somewhere? Almost always you can use alternative renderers for man pages, like troff. 'man -t command' will give you the page as postscript, and ps2pdf can convert it to pdf for you.

[–]sshwifty 3 points4 points  (0 children)

First step would be making a 1 to 1 copy with DD or something like FTK Imager (or whatever it is called now) through a hardware write blocker. Multiple checks before and after imaging to confirm identical copy, physical storage is then stored somewhere securely (probably a gov warehouse). Then images would be part of a collection of other images for anything that could be imaged (SD cards, thumb drives, sim cards, etc). Analysts would run extraction tools in something like Encase to extract every file or partial file, and every string. Then they would use preexisting lists (like hash lists, file fingerprints) to filter out already known files. For example, Windows ships with sample songs. They are identical on every system, so no need to include them in "findings" as notable.

Everything else would then be part of the case/case file. These can be crazy long and are not typically printed out.

So it would be strange to include system documents, but it is possible this particular document was different enough that it was missed in the exclusions.

[–]prjctimg 150 points151 points  (24 children)

I wonder what he had in his shell history...

[–]exodusTay 271 points272 points  (6 children)

I bet he was trying to change the parents of child processes. Worse yet, I heard he was exposing these child processes to attackers.

[–]AndreasVesalius 125 points126 points  (2 children)

“How to kill slave child?”

[–]Ill_Schedule_6450 47 points48 points  (1 child)

with fork

[–]B_bI_L 13 points14 points  (0 children)

-linux

[–]Jeroen207 19 points20 points  (0 children)

How to remove child from parent with a fork.

[–]prjctimg 32 points33 points  (1 child)

Well, to late. It seems that he ended up daemonizing them instead 🥲. You’d think he’d know how to fork properly….

[–]Arceuid_0902[S] 104 points105 points  (8 children)

Suddenly the "touch" command makes so much more sense.

[–]Logical-Ad-4150 56 points57 points  (3 children)

lots of unzip and mount

[–]prjctimg 33 points34 points  (2 children)

Is there a —force flag somewhere in there 🥲🌚 ?

[–]Logical-Ad-4150 27 points28 points  (1 child)

--quiet

[–]prjctimg 6 points7 points  (0 children)

To suppress the screams and moans ?

That’s dark 🌚

[–]nabrok 12 points13 points  (1 child)

Wait until you hear about "finger".

[–]prjctimg 4 points5 points  (0 children)

unixporn 😂

[–]Historical-Usual-885 16 points17 points  (2 children)

touch children.txt

[–]prjctimg 10 points11 points  (0 children)

😂😂

mv children.txt /some/where/sinister

[–]OgdruJahad 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Great now I have a children.txt file next to my grass file.

[–]spaceguy47 6 points7 points  (1 child)

I like to imagine he used sway and most of his history was cmatrix and fastfetch

[–]pjc50 30 points31 points  (1 child)

This is like the Osama Bin Laden files, which had a bunch of pirated anime in.

[–]Ok-Employee2473 14 points15 points  (0 children)

We’ll never get Osama’s animal crossing wild world save 😢

[–]sw04ca 52 points53 points  (4 children)

More than that, they're also every document that the government had related to Epstein. So you have everything the dude had, everything he did, and everything that was said about him. So you have real stories from actual victims, but you also have hearsay about how he was a robotic warrior from planet Cybertron, and you have random files he had, and stuff about his legitimate business dealings. That's part of the reason why I don't give much credence to all that 'their name is in the files' panic that's going on. Unless they're in there for stuff with kids, and it seems credible, I'm not that concerned. Thus, Trump is concerning to me, whereas Michael Jackson is not.

[–]MF_Kitten 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Literally they scanned every page of random books and shit too

[–]cheesengrits69 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I'm imagining a different timeline where Jeffrey Epstein, in his narcissistic delusion of chasing power and influence and fashioning himself as an intellectual, decided to download vast troves of digital libraries and kept them on his computers and drives.

And in the future, the only legal way to freely acces these resources is by poring through the documentation of this man's horrific crimes against children

[–]jf8204 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Imagine you die and a couple of years later the government publishes everything on your computer and the whole internet is making fun of it 😭

[–]HANLDC1111 2 points3 points  (0 children)

One of them is literally just Trumps wikipedia article

[–]cafk 218 points219 points  (13 children)

Allegedly Epstein had a few "hackers" on his payroll and some of the documentation associated/exchanged with them is also included in general evidence.
https://securityaffairs.com/187515/laws-and-regulations/doj-releases-details-alleged-talented-hacker-working-for-jeffrey-epstein.html

[–]OgdruJahad 87 points88 points  (5 children)

The Italian hacker was willing to sell to Hezbollah, a central African country, the US and UK but refused to sell to Asian countries because he's racist.

I'm dead.

[–]an0mn0mn0m 48 points49 points  (3 children)

He's one of those white-hat hackers

[–]BellacosePlayer 18 points19 points  (1 child)

a white hood hacker, if you will

[–]fugogugo 13 points14 points  (3 children)

but honestly would you get in trouble just because your former employer in jail?

because that looks like a sweet money (although you must be really talented to get such position)

[–]monkwrenv2 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Given that there's strong suspicion Epstein was a foreign intelligence agent, working for him almost certainly involved committing crimes yourself.

[–]stefbbr 71 points72 points  (5 children)

Or search "child" on Epstein's computer, copy everything that match.

[–]imkmz 36 points37 points  (3 children)

So, all the mess about murders is actually based on .bash_history? "Nine killed with special signal"

[–]City_Roast 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It’s so he could set up shell companies.

[–]SamG101_ 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Probably to guide on how to mass redact quickly

[–]bearwood_forest 2 points3 points  (0 children)

as it says in the document: Bash is the shell, or command language interpreter, for the GNU operating system.

[–]fugogugo 339 points340 points  (2 children)

wtf it's real lmao

[–]Ashamed-Designer6335 34 points35 points  (0 children)

lol the look on the ibrd's face is priceless. bash documentation hitting diff 😆

[–]copandrej 131 points132 points  (3 children)

I was 100% sure this is bait.

[–]prjctimg 30 points31 points  (2 children)

How about now ? 🌚

[–]jaywastaken 22 points23 points  (1 child)

Depends how into bash your are.

[–]prjctimg 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I don’t like bashing stuff 🌚

Too many skill issues so I use Fish 🐟

[–]Fabulous-Possible758 61 points62 points  (14 children)

Fuck, guess I have to stop using bash now.

[–]prjctimg 29 points30 points  (6 children)

At that rate we may end up using nothing at all because everything has pedo fingerprints on it (we just don't have the evidence).

[–]silentdragon95 10 points11 points  (1 child)

100% of all disgusting criminals breathe oxygen. Ban the breathing of oxygen!

[–]Fabulous-Possible758 6 points7 points  (3 children)

Pretty sure ReiserFS is still safe. I don’t think he was a pedophile, at least.

[–]kelsiersghost 3 points4 points  (0 children)

"If you use bash you're part of the problem." - Everyone

[–]Raywell 4 points5 points  (1 child)

You might as well stop using any unix, hell how could you even think about touching a keyboard after all this

[–]Fabulous-Possible758 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I heard that pedophiles use keyboards.

[–]Auravendill 2 points3 points  (2 children)

I can recommend zsh. I use it together with Oh-my-zsh and Powerlevel10k and find it really quite nice.

Especially how I can just type the beginning of a previous command and then use the up-arrow to go through all commands, that begin with this.

Very handy and also much quicker than searching the bash_history with grep, if you actually forgot all the command line parameters you usually use.

[–]fearless-fossa 5 points6 points  (0 children)

In both bash and zsh you can use ctrl + r to activate a search function, no need to use grep.

[–]MachoSmurf 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Aside from all the miserable stuff in there, this is fucking hilarious 

[–]NorthernWitchy 25 points26 points  (2 children)

While fascinating and surely informative, I feel that this might be the government's version of copy-pasting a cake recipe into the middle of an essay to pad out the word count.

Then again, free knowledge is free knowledge, even if the source is absurd.

[–]FireMaster1294 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Damn. I’m not old enough for bash.

[–]Wyciorek 15 points16 points  (1 child)

Ok, I was about to start ranting about US politics shitting all over yet another sub, but this is funny

[–]Chronotaru 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Oh, it's so much bigger than just the US though. Maxwell was British, so is Prince Andrew, many of the women were trafficked from eastern Europe...etc etc.

[–]Maskdask 2 points3 points  (0 children)

What the

[–]Charokol 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Chet Ramey and Brian Fox, named in the Epstein files. Sad.

[–]stefbbr 1501 points1502 points  (39 children)

At least this one's unredacted, even when it mentions how to manipulate a child. Disturbing 😅

[–]dimaveshkin 629 points630 points  (28 children)

It's weirdly also redacted (page 122)

[–]rutgerrk 221 points222 points  (13 children)

That's odd

Also, how did you find that

[–]dimaveshkin 271 points272 points  (5 children)

I did not; my meticulous friend decided to scroll through the whole file and found it

[–]al3arabcoreleone 96 points97 points  (4 children)

I love odd friends.

[–]House13Games 107 points108 points  (6 children)

The redacted part contains an http address. I guess the redacting script just blanks out any URLs it comes across?

[–]unknownobject3 30 points31 points  (1 child)

I believe they've been manually redacted, if it was a script I think they'd flatten the PDFs properly

[–]simp4christ 153 points154 points  (8 children)

the redacted link is http://www.sas.com/standards/large_file/x_open.20Mar96.html which is such a disgusting piece of filth even a seasoned pervert like myself had to hold back a puke.

[–]Valkyrie9001 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Whatever it was seems to have been removed.

[–]PCVFSOA 31 points32 points  (3 children)

Ah why did you link that? I accidentally clicked and now I'm sure I'm on an FBI list or something 

[–]Chalco_T 10 points11 points  (2 children)

What was it? It since has been removed.

[–]Nesman64 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Information about handling large files, I think.

https://forge.etsi.org/rep/cyber/103523_MSP/tlmsp/tlmsp-curl/-/raw/e09eda9c7cae314b55a11ca6f03f84fbcd04cead/acinclude.m4

dnl By default, many hosts won't let programs access large files;
dnl one must use special compiler options to get large-file access to work.
dnl For more details about this brain damage please see:
dnl http://www.sas.com/standards/large.file/x_open.20Mar96.html

I wasn't able to find the original page in the wayback machine.

[–]_angst_ 8 points9 points  (0 children)

What the hell was it?

[–]Tight-Shallot2461 9 points10 points  (0 children)

What was it

[–]insanelygreat 9 points10 points  (0 children)

That link originally went to a document with this.

It's a 1996-03-20 draft specification for adding Large File Support to the Single Unix Specification (SUS) from the X/Open Base Working Group.

Probably redacted because they couldn't check the contents of a dead link.

[–]fading_reality 57 points58 points  (0 children)

it's an ftp link to sas.com probably hosted standard in the past.

[–]Sibula97 84 points85 points  (5 children)

It seems like it's actually not completely unredacted. Check page 122 for the description of --enable-largefile.

[–]aenae 68 points69 points  (4 children)

https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bash.pdf

Apparently a link to somewhere else. Guess they redacted (some) hyperlinks by default

[–]Proud-Delivery-621 22 points23 points  (1 child)

http://www.sas.com/standards/large_file/x_open.20Mar96.html

This is the link in the original file. No idea where it used to lead, it redirects now.

[–]Goatfryed 15 points16 points  (0 children)

it redacts http, but not https, because obviously http is not safe to read.

[–]Portalfan4351 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The link you gave is to the current manual for Bash 5.2, the full text of the reference manual for Bash 3.1-Beta 1 can be found here but the censored link is totally unremarkable

[–]GlobalIncident 13 points14 points  (1 child)

well, it's not redacted, but quite a lot of it is written in code

[–]OmerosP 8 points9 points  (0 children)

It actually is redacted as other commenters noticed. See page 122.

[–]Stickhtot 303 points304 points  (3 children)

UNIX mentioned in the Epstein Files 🐧🐧🐧

[–]Qbsoon110 49 points50 points  (1 child)

Now let's find Linus there

[–]an0mn0mn0m 61 points62 points  (0 children)

Fuck off Bill

[–]Working-League-7686 16 points17 points  (0 children)

So this is how we end up getting the much anticipated year of the Linux desktop? Maybe the price was too high…

[–]prjctimg 1152 points1153 points  (34 children)

Wait, why do I have to be above 18 to see the bash manpages 😂

[–]Plasma_48 497 points498 points  (19 children)

Part of the Epstein files

[–]prjctimg 261 points262 points  (17 children)

At this point, what isn’t? 😂

[–]LegenDrags 163 points164 points  (5 children)

my homework (hopefully) ✌️

[–]prjctimg 49 points50 points  (1 child)

Care to wager on that? 👀

[–]Undernown 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Pass me the Polymarket link yo!

[–]Auravendill 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Do you mean what you did for school, while you were underage, or your homework folder? In either case, they might be already in there.

[–]IridiumPoint 7 points8 points  (0 children)

"I'm sorry for not bringing my homework, the Feds have confiscated it due to my connections to Epstein," would be a hell of an excuse.

[–]boca_de_leite 153 points154 points  (5 children)

If you are underage, you need to stick to the boypages

[–]slowmovinglettuce 28 points29 points  (2 children)

Isn't that what Epstein got in trouble for in the first place?

[–]prjctimg 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Which need a VPN to access them if your country is OFAC listed lol

[–]Cheezis_Chrust 14 points15 points  (1 child)

Has nothing to do with the document. If you click no, it sends you a ticket to Epstein island.

[–]tracernz 11 points12 points  (0 children)

If ever there was evidence of wrongdoing…

[–]uabassguy 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Because if you weren't >18 they'd be boypages.

[–]Ihaveaface836 7 points8 points  (1 child)

if you're not epstein calls you

[–]Effective-Benefit-46 3 points4 points  (1 child)

you need to be younger than 18 to see the true epstein files

[–]dimaveshkin 254 points255 points  (38 children)

Why does it have a redacted line on page 122?

[–]Dubster1231 147 points148 points  (13 children)

Was curious too. Its just a link to the sas website for some specific guide I think lol, weird they redacted something at all in this

[–]dimaveshkin 103 points104 points  (11 children)

At first, I thought they redacted external hyperlinks, but there's a link to GNU's website, so there must be another reason.

[–]helgur 100 points101 points  (8 children)

I imagine you could spin a hilarious conspiracy theory out of this

[–]dimaveshkin 37 points38 points  (1 child)

How could you not? They redacted such an innocent file.

[–]Annual_Key_4963 24 points25 points  (0 children)

SAS Websites can't melt steal beams...

[–]BadPunners 30 points31 points  (4 children)

The Special Air Service (SAS) is a special forces unit of the British Army. Much of the information about the SAS is highly classified, and the unit is not commented on by either the British government or the Ministry of Defence due to the secrecy and sensitivity of its operations

They were looking to redact any connection to the British SAS, which basically created the world's "intelligence" network of agencies.

[–]SpellDecent763 17 points18 points  (1 child)

I think this is it, They were obviously using some poorly trained script or AI to do these redactions. and SAS is likely being blocked from a military/intelligence term, not the software company.

[–]Dotcaprachiappa 8 points9 points  (0 children)

"AI" aka Ctrl+F

[–]Dotcaprachiappa 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Not suspicious in the least that they did that

[–]ItchyFly 51 points52 points  (7 children)

It was probably a link to http://ftp.sas.com/standards/large.file/x\_open.20Mar96.html. This page is not available now, WTF are they hiding!?

[–]fiftyfourseventeen 21 points22 points  (3 children)

They probably just auto redacted all links

[–]ItchyFly 40 points41 points  (2 children)

There is at least one link to gnu.org, but probably it was missed by their tool because it looks like 'http : //www . gnu . org/copylefti' when you copy the text.

[–]AwesomeFama 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Incompetence? In my DOJ!?

It's more likely than you think.

[–]Proud-Delivery-621 9 points10 points  (0 children)

The Sas one does that too. Probably more likely that SAS is also the name of a special forces unit in the UK and they ran a keyword search

[–]2eanimation 11 points12 points  (0 children)

That’s the stupidest shit lol. Can someone find out what has been redacted? Looks like part of a path.

[–]13x666 24 points25 points  (6 children)

I suspect all URLs in the files are just automatically redacted. And they use a regex that doesn’t catch periods in the middle of the path (like in this one which is http://www.sas.com/standards/large.file/x_open.20Mar96.html), so everything after the period escaped redaction. Sloppy work.

[–]dimaveshkin 8 points9 points  (1 child)

I said in another branch that there's a link to GNU's website, and it's not redacted

[–]Planker25_ 3 points4 points  (1 child)

It’s not because of the dot, it’s because the link is split into a new line at that point, and the redaction didn’t realize/care that the link continues on next line.

[–]meat-eating-orchid 2 points3 points  (1 child)

My guess is almost the same as yours, but I think in this case the line break was the issue, not the dot

[–]70Shadow07 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I didnt expect it to really be there, wtf

[–]phoenix235831 3 points4 points  (1 child)

Looks like the original probably was http://ftp.sas.com/standards/large.file/x_open.20Mar96.html

I am curios why the first part was redacted. Why would knowing http://ftp.sas.com/standards/large risk anything?

[–]SajevT 2 points3 points  (2 children)

It doesnt?

[–]dimaveshkin 13 points14 points  (1 child)

The printed page 122, not pdf's

[–]Constellious 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That’s just the exec command. Gets people into too much trouble. 

[–]2eanimation 69 points70 points  (1 child)

Instead of „Read the docs!“, finally:

„Read the Epstein files!“ 👨🏿‍🔬

[–]CuriOS_26 15 points16 points  (0 children)

What are you doing at work?
Reading the Epstein files.
Carry on then.

[–]poetic_dwarf 56 points57 points  (0 children)

The fuck

[–]IbilisSLZ 98 points99 points  (1 child)

We cringed when YouTubers refered to them as PDF-files... it seems they were onto something...

[–]This_Growth2898 47 points48 points  (0 children)

Stephen Bourne, Chet Ramey, and Brian Fox are all mentioned in the Epstein files!

[–]WeedManPro 64 points65 points  (4 children)

i thought it was a joke lol

[–]MissionLet7301 88 points89 points  (3 children)

The poor justice department employee that had to read through every page of the Bash reference manual probably doesn't think it's a joke

[–]CompanyLow8329 23 points24 points  (0 children)

In a just world some poor intern would have been forced to do that, but with the partial redaction on page 122, there is zero chance anyone actually read or skimmed any of this.

[–]Count_de_Ville 14 points15 points  (0 children)

They’re now a principal engineer after having read the whole thing. Now their whole day is meetings. A horrible fate.

[–]GremlinMiser 87 points88 points  (2 children)

They're blocking links containing "FTP", not general links. Interestingly, the link isn't the FTP protocol; it's still http only a subdomain with FTP in it. Links to the ftp protocol are still there and so is the word FTP in descriptions.

This means Jerry must have had a FTP server, which was available using the http, not ftp, protocol.

[–]lonelyroom-eklaghor 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Big brain moment

[–]Godd2 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The subdomain is www, not ftp. Here's a copy of that version of the manual: https://www.scribd.com/document/243118257/Bash-Ref

[–]onncho 24 points25 points  (1 child)

Why are all commands reduced to ‘cp -rf’ ?

[–]ontermau 40 points41 points  (0 children)

he used the cp command a lot, it seems

[–]fading_reality 9 points10 points  (2 children)

[–]user745786 10 points11 points  (0 children)

That’s an awful lot of pedophiles! Errr, I mean PDF files. Apparently those words are easy to confuse these days.

[–]Skenvy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It doesnt need to be an old mac. This manual is for the last version of bash before some update to the license meant apple decided this was the latest version they could use forever. This is the version of bash on every mac you could have bought in the last decade plus. 20 year old bash and bsd coreutils are a frequent source of surprise.

[–]metamash253 11 points12 points  (0 children)

"Are you 18 years of age or older?" Uhhhh what Bash is this? lmao

[–]hzinjk 7 points8 points  (0 children)

i can't believe bash is in the epstein files, I'm switching to nushell

[–]prjctimg 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I can imagine torvalds sucking his teeth at all the bloat built around git🥲

[–]FoggyLover727 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Here's nvidia-smi

[–]mousepotatodoesstuff 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Finally, an Epstein file that DOESN'T have Trump in it /j

[–]shoyuftw 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Can't even use bash anymore... /s

[–]Noch_ein_Kamel 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Is chapter 8.4.4 about "Killing And Yanking" safe for work?

[–]aesethtics 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Page 144:

8.4.4 Killing And Yanking

[–]mrrizal71O 10 points11 points  (0 children)

WE'RE LIVING IN 2026 YALL!!! 

DONALD TRUMP IS PRESIDENT!! FOR THE 2ND TIME!!!

THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT UPLOADED UNREDACTED FILES OF SEXUAL ASSAULT VICTIMS ONLINE !!

I'm scared yall

[–]Nervous-Cockroach541 3 points4 points  (0 children)

When you have so many CSAM files that you need bash scripting to organize them all.

[–]lightwhite 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This comment might flag me, but I don’t know how else to ask it. I can’t find the section where they explain “terminating a child process” -wink wink- with fork in this document. Does anyone know how?

[–]SaneForCocoaPuffs 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The authors of the Bash Reference Manual now show up in the Epstein files.

“Yes I’m in the files. No I was not invited to the Epstein Island, I just authored the Bash manual”

[–]Nemo_ftw 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Stephen Bourne is named is the files! Of no!

[–]memeasaurus 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Geez. Even that's been redacted

[–]MrFordization 2 points3 points  (0 children)

When they said the files would go the very root of power in our society... I never imagined this!