Trigg

You’re a distro?

I’d go for /usr/bin/strings personally, then it’ll allow binary junk too!

YNWA, friend

I’m not sure I’m fully understanding. Are you wanting files which can be read but never copied?

Scratch that, i missed a line. So simply files stored but not user readable.

Look agan.

The point being most AUR packages are compiled on each update

Man updating packages by compiling them is so stupid

Oh look 15 updated packages from AUR

It can be

What it produces will typically not contain the original names for variables and functions, and will not retain comments. It takes a lot more effort to understand what the intention behind the code was.

There’s also legality issues.