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Geez... echo [some garble] | base64 | bash , and you'd spin up a VM to diagnose it?

I'd google a base64 decoder and paste the "[some garble]" in...



The command helpfully already tells you where you can find a base64 decoder: it's in /usr/bin/base64.

Assuming you already have a ChatGPT window handy, which many people do these days, I don't think it's any worse to paste it there and ask the LLM to decode it, and avoid the risk that you copy and pasted the "| bash" as well.




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