📊 Quantitative test results for language: eng, year: 2023, size: 10K, paranoia level: 1:
🚀 Quantitative testing did not detect new false positives

self appears to be a command from Tcl: https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/self+-+TclOO. This might not seem like something we should care about, however, there are a number of Tcl interpreters, one of which is "Cisco IOS": https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/What+is+Tcl. There's probably a reason for self being in that list.

That being said, it's probably still an edge case that we could drop. I'll put this on the agenda to discuss.

In the monthly chat meeting from May 5th, we decided to drop the command self.
#4116

Doing some digging, it looks like the pattern for self only appeared in 2023 (added to regex-assembly/include/unix-shell-4andup-with-params.ra when we moved to script-based processing to generate that list, it seems).

I think self ever being added may have been a simple mistake.

Maybe it came from proc/self which is an entry in rules/unix-shell.data which is used as the source to crate the unix-4-and-up pattern file.

89c1b5812

Ah yes! /proc/self makes sense. Thanks @RedXanadu.