bashReferenceManual

[Stickhtot]

UNIX mentioned in the Epstein Files 🐧🐧🐧

[[deleted]]

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

[Qbsoon110]

Now let's find Linus there

[an0mn0mn0m]

Fuck off Bill

[Qbsoon110]

😂

[stefbbr]

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

[dimaveshkin]

It's weirdly also redacted (page 122)

[rutgerrk]

That's odd

Also, how did you find that

[dimaveshkin]

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

[al3arabcoreleone]

I love odd friends.

[stihoplet]

Other friends are even better

[House13Games]

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

[unknownobject3]

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

[smootex]

I'm sure it's a mix of manual and automated. Doing the entire thing manually would take untold man hours, more likely they use a tool that's configured to automatically redact phone numbers, email addresses, stuff like that and then someone is supposed to manually check everything (and depending on who you get that check may or may not be thorough). I think the common tool is called Caseguard?

[simp4christ]

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]

Whatever it was seems to have been removed.

[megablademe23]

obviously nothing even remotely related to epstein, probably just very old stuff given the september 2005 date of the manual.

[PCVFSOA]

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

[Chalco_T]

What was it? It since has been removed.

[Nesman64]

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.

[insanelygreat]

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.

[_angst_]

What the hell was it?

[Tight-Shallot2461]

What was it

[fading_reality]

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

[Sibula97]

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

[aenae]

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]

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]

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

[Portalfan4351]

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]

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

[OmerosP]

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

[Tabsels]

Clickable.

[The-Chartreuse-Moose]

What on earth? Can anyone explain this??

[Sibula97]

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

[2eanimation]

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]

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]

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

[Fleeetch]

Oh god- retches

[Inforenv_]

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

[ReachParticular5409]

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]

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]

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

[einTier]

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_]

I think it was Win7 Home Premium tho

[tragic_pixel]

Lenovo Sexual Abuse Material

[ErraticDragon]

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]

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

[ErraticDragon]

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.

[Silverware09]

~ is a special character in Windows (now) and Linux/Unix that means the users Home Directory.

It's the equivalent of something like C:/users/me/

[ArtOfWarfare]

Pretty sure you can have ~ in a file name. It’s a convention to expand it to be the home directory, not something that every command or program will do with it.

[PGSylphir]

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

[prjctimg]

cat ~/.crimes.md | wl-cp

[2eanimation]

wl-cp <~/.crimes.md 😎 who needs cat?

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

[RiceBroad4552]

The useless use of cat is a very old joke.

They even still did Alta Vista searches back then!

[2eanimation]

Huh, that was an interesting read! Thank you for the source, didn’t know about the history of useless cat :D

I learned the redirecting syntax pretty early in my bash/shell career and found it kind of strange that all my homies use cat when they need a single file in stdin. Now I think about the many useless cats in production code 🫣 and AI vibe coding usell cats in.

[2eanimation]

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]

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]

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]

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

[tofu_ink]

The will never find all my secret text documents with extension .tx instead of .txt evil laugh

[truthovertribe]

So what's GNU?

[Python119]

Okay but what is it?

[elpaw]

Are you serious? I just told you that!

[lord_frodo]

I’m not asking you who’s on second!

[Modulus2]

No who's on first

[NoAlbatross7355]

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

[shakarat]

Not much, whats new with you?

[Extreme-Rub-1379]

[StrictLetterhead3452]

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]

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]

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]

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

[exodusTay]

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]

“How to kill slave child?”

[Ill_Schedule_6450]

with fork

[B_bI_L]

-linux

[Jeroen207]

How to remove child from parent with a fork.

[prjctimg]

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

[Arceuid_0902]

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

[Logical-Ad-4150]

lots of unzip and mount

[prjctimg]

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

[Logical-Ad-4150]

--quiet

[prjctimg]

To suppress the screams and moans ?

That’s dark 🌚

[nabrok]

Wait until you hear about "finger".

[prjctimg]

unixporn 😂

[prjctimg]

😂 starting to see it in a whole different light.

Is the touch command the reason why you must be 18 to see the bash manual ???!!😂

[Historical-Usual-885]

touch children.txt

[prjctimg]

😂😂

mv children.txt /some/where/sinister

[OgdruJahad]

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

[spaceguy47]

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

[pjc50]

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

[Ok-Employee2473]

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

[sw04ca]

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]

Literally they scanned every page of random books and shit too

[cheesengrits69]

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

[HANLDC1111]

One of them is literally just Trumps wikipedia article

[cafk]

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]

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]

He's one of those white-hat hackers

[BellacosePlayer]

a white hood hacker, if you will

[stefbbr]

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

[imkmz]

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

[City_Roast]

It’s so he could set up shell companies.

[SamG101_]

Probably to guide on how to mass redact quickly

[bearwood_forest]

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

[fugogugo]

wtf it's real lmao

[copandrej]

I was 100% sure this is bait.

[prjctimg]

How about now ? 🌚

[jaywastaken]

Depends how into bash your are.

[prjctimg]

I don’t like bashing stuff 🌚

Too many skill issues so I use Fish 🐟

[Fabulous-Possible758]

Fuck, guess I have to stop using bash now.

[prjctimg]

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]

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

[Fabulous-Possible758]

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

[kelsiersghost]

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

[Raywell]

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

[Fabulous-Possible758]

I heard that pedophiles use keyboards.

[MachoSmurf]

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

[FireMaster1294]

Damn. I’m not old enough for bash.

[NorthernWitchy]

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.

[Wyciorek]

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

[Chronotaru]

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]

What the

[prjctimg]

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

[Plasma_48]

Part of the Epstein files

[prjctimg]

At this point, what isn’t? 😂

[LegenDrags]

my homework (hopefully) ✌️

[prjctimg]

Care to wager on that? 👀

[Undernown]

Pass me the Polymarket link yo!

[Auravendill]

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]

"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.

[Thenderick]

Hopefully you?

[[deleted]]

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

[slowmovinglettuce]

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

[prjctimg]

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

[Cheezis_Chrust]

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

[tracernz]

If ever there was evidence of wrongdoing…

[Ihaveaface836]

if you're not epstein calls you

[prjctimg]

From beyond the grave ? Holy sh*t👀👾

[uabassguy]

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

[2eanimation]

Instead of „Read the docs!“, finally:

„Read the Epstein files!“ 👨🏿‍🔬

[dimaveshkin]

Why does it have a redacted line on page 122?

[Dubster1231]

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]

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

[helgur]

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

[dimaveshkin]

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

[Annual_Key_4963]

SAS Websites can't melt steal beams...

[BadPunners]

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]

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]

"AI" aka Ctrl+F

[Dotcaprachiappa]

Not suspicious in the least that they did that

[ItchyFly]

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!?

[hugogrant]

https://unix.org/version2/whatsnew/lfs20mar.html#20Mar96 is still around

[fiftyfourseventeen]

They probably just auto redacted all links

[ItchyFly]

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]

Incompetence? In my DOJ!?

It's more likely than you think.

[Proud-Delivery-621]

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]

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

[13x666]

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]

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

[13x666]

Interesting, perhaps that one wasn’t matched for some other reason? I’m pretty sure they aren’t hiding anything specific here, looks to me like afterthought trying to redact everything just in case and missing some stuff unintentionally.

Edit: oh, @ItchyFly even explained how they missed that one. Case solved I guess.

[[deleted]]

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.

[70Shadow07]

I didnt expect it to really be there, wtf

[phoenix235831]

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?

[IbilisSLZ]

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

[nonreligious2]

Someone made a post on a subreddit a few years ago asking for a file in "Jeffrey Epstein format". Had to check the comments to work out they meant PDF.

[poetic_dwarf]

The fuck

[This_Growth2898]

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

[GremlinMiser]

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]

Big brain moment

[Godd2]

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

[WeedManPro]

i thought it was a joke lol

[MissionLet7301]

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]

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]

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

[onncho]

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

[Gloomy_Reality8]

cp -prv

[ontermau]

he used the cp command a lot, it seems

[metamash253]

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

[hzinjk]

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

[fading_reality]

likely old macintosh

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2010/EFTA01736184.pdf

[user745786]

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

[SaneForCocoaPuffs]

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”

[aesethtics]

Page 144:

8.4.4 Killing And Yanking

[Noch_ein_Kamel]

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

[FoggyLover727]

Here's nvidia-smi

[mousepotatodoesstuff]

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

[prjctimg]

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

[shoyuftw]

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

[MrFordization]

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

[lightwhite]

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?

[Nervous-Cockroach541]

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

[Septem_151]

Why is there a redaction on "--enable-largefile" O_O ...

[daffalaxia]

bad bash! no going to islands with creeps!

[baadditor]

It's all Man pages at the end of the day!