Make cat download a picture of a cat.

[heitorPB]

Using The Cat API.
Of course that should be the function of the command cat. Who would think that cat file.txt should dump the file instead of downloading a picture of a cat?

[kcdtv]

Meow!

[ironmaniiith]

Why not save it as a .png file in /tmp and even open it everytime. 😜

[heitorPB]

Because some people should also run this evil.sh in headless servers, it could be impossible to open the png remotely if the server has no Xorg.

[benaryorg]

Unless you are running terminology and [insert name of other terminal emulator supporting this] and using tycat or decoding and writing to the framebuffer on a tty this won't always be noticed and this is particularly bad if that picture goes unseen.

Cats deserve to be seen!

Meow.

[benaryorg]

Also you should probably make this a function and run wget using &>/dev/null (redirects stdout and stderr), just in case.

[noamnelke]

suggestion: just echo this:

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[benaryorg]

I think having cat just do nothing and return successfully (true) is more subtle and confusing, hence I'd prefer that one, I can't speak for everyone though.