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So I was reading here on DosTips that a quine returned the script itself, and that the smallest know quine was like 100+ bytes.

After reading that, I made this:

(24 Bytes)

Is this considered a quine?
Seems quite simple.

Of course Wikipedia has a good outline of a quine. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quine_(computing)
See the following quote:

However quines cannot receive any form of input, including reading a file. Which means the following shell script is not a quine.

So unfortunately, according to the general rules, your script is not a quine because it take in input by reading itself.

I had previously brought up the issue but it went unanswered. Good answer.

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