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What is the BASH reference manual doing in the Epstein files?


Serious (if hilarious) question. Someone linked me to this, but they were unable to provide context, but it's an official justice.gov link!

I've been following the news around latest release (who hasn't) but I've not done any digging into the actual files myself. I was wondering if someone who's more familiar with them could provide some context as to why this is in there? I don't really want to wade through that filth myself, honestly, but I did try searching "BASH" but didn't really see anything that looked relevant.

Was Epstein pro FOSS? Was someone helping him troubleshoot something? WTF is this doing there!? I have to know!?

Tux has some explaining to do!