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Such a program is called as quine. For more information google with the keyword "quine".

this is the code that can print its source code as its output in java
import java.io.*
class Source
{
public static void main(String args[]) throws Exception
{
FileReader fr=new FileReader("Source.java");
BufferedReader br=new BufferedReader(fr);
String str=null;
while((str=br.readLine())!=null)
System.out.println(str);
}
}

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this 1 from wiki:

public class Quine
{
  public static void main( String[] args )
  {
    char q = 34;      // Quotation mark character
    String[] l = {    // Array of source code
    "public class Quine",
    "{",
    "  public static void main( String[] args )",
    "  {",
    "    char q = 34;      // Quotation mark character",
    "    String[] l = {    // Array of source code",
    "    ",
    "    };",
    "    for( int i = 0; i < 6; i++ )           // Print opening code",
    "        System.out.println( l[i] );",
    "    for( int i = 0; i < l.length; i++ )    // Print string array",
    "        System.out.println( l[6] + q + l[i] + q + ',' );",
    "    for( int i = 7; i < l.length; i++ )    // Print this code",
    "        System.out.println( l[i] );",
    "  }",
    "}",
    };
    for( int i = 0; i < 6; i++ )           // Print opening code
        System.out.println( l[i] );
    for( int i = 0; i < l.length; i++ )    // Print string array
        System.out.println( l[6] + q + l[i] + q + ',' );
    for( int i = 7; i < l.length; i++ )    // Print this code
        System.out.println( l[i] );
  }
}

but i doubt such programs will be asked from u in interviews

Way too easy in C/C++,

use to do in my early programming days.. :)..

M nt sure its wat they expected but I will read a file whose file name is the program's File name . :)

We can use below line in code..It'll work in Linux

system("vi filename.c");

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
my $fileName = $0;
open(FILE, $fileName);
while(<FILE>){
    print $_;
}
close(FILE);

It is the simplest:

int main()
{
        char *s="int main(){char *s=%c%s%c;printf(s,34,s,34)}";
        printf(s,34,s,34);
}

see here:ideone.com/iZvI3

In simplest terms, I am thinking of writing a program which opens its source code file ( with file handling) and reads it and subsequently writes the output.