Even though you don't know ruby, you should really check out the source code. It's very simple. __FILE__ is a reference to the current file name.
If you'd looked at the source code, you'd see that it's actually a pretty cheap quine, since it has access to that magic variable. You could do the same thing with just:
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Even though you don't know ruby, you should really check out the source code. It's very simple. __FILE__ is a reference to the current file name.
If you'd looked at the source code, you'd see that it's actually a pretty cheap quine, since it has access to that magic variable. You could do the same thing with just:
puts File.read(__FILE__)
Oh man, i was just thinking of this in terms of a REPL and didn't think of incorporating it into a file. duh :) thanks