Days of work on this didn't get me much further. 6 characters seems to be the minimum, but (in the style of mtve), I did manage to produce a (much longer) script that uses 4 characters, one dollar sign ($), and one underscore(_). If someone could figure out how to get rid of these, I'd be much delighted.
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