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by resonious 1023 days ago
I see this a lot. Some unsolicited advice: you don't need cat for this kind of command:

    echo "https://smolsite.zip/`cat somesite.zip | base64 --wrap 0`"
can become

    echo "https://smolsite.zip/`base64 --wrap 0 < somesite.zip`"
- Really awesome project nonetheless!
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See "Useless Use of Cat" for more.