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Re: how execute a script

From tomas@tuxteam.de
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: how execute a script
Date 2015-11-17 23:10 +0100
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On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 04:13:48PM -0500, shawn wilson wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 3:24 PM,  <tomas@tuxteam.de> wrote:

[...]

> > Now you lost me.
> >
> 
> If magic were smarter (was able to derive from syntax or had regex
> capability in the format), it could've still told me I was looking at
> a script (and not just a bunch of text - which is next to useless). It
> doesn't, so arguing that magic could be used (not an argument I've
> seen, but one I was expecting and figured I'd preempt) instead of an
> extension is lacking.

Got it. But magic *can* do many of those things. A headless shell
script is a tough nut to crack, though: "echo" could occur as well
in a Tcl script (via Tcl's crazy but genius "unknown" mechanism).

Start here[1] if you want to have some fun :-)

[1] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyglot_(computing)>

regards
- -- tomás
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Re: how execute a script Martin Str|mberg <ams@ludd.luth.se> - 2015-11-16 07:00 +0100
  Re: how execute a script Chris Bannister <cbannister@slingshot.co.nz> - 2015-11-16 07:30 +0100
  Re: how execute a script David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2015-11-16 20:40 +0100
    Re: how execute a script Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2015-11-16 23:40 +0100
      Re: how execute a script <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2015-11-17 09:30 +0100
      Re: how execute a script shawn wilson <ag4ve.us@gmail.com> - 2015-11-17 15:40 +0100
        Re: how execute a script Chris Bannister <cbannister@slingshot.co.nz> - 2015-11-17 19:10 +0100
          Re: how execute a script shawn wilson <ag4ve.us@gmail.com> - 2015-11-17 19:10 +0100
            Re: how execute a script Elimar Riesebieter <riesebie@lxtec.de> - 2015-11-17 19:30 +0100
              Re: how execute a script shawn wilson <ag4ve.us@gmail.com> - 2015-11-17 20:10 +0100
            Re: how execute a script Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2015-11-17 20:00 +0100
              Re: how execute a script shawn wilson <ag4ve.us@gmail.com> - 2015-11-17 20:10 +0100
                Re: how execute a script Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2015-11-17 21:00 +0100
                Re: how execute a script shawn wilson <ag4ve.us@gmail.com> - 2015-11-17 21:00 +0100
                Re: how execute a script shawn wilson <ag4ve.us@gmail.com> - 2015-11-17 21:10 +0100
                Re: how execute a script shawn wilson <ag4ve.us@gmail.com> - 2015-11-17 21:20 +0100
                Re: how execute a script <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2015-11-17 22:00 +0100
                Re: how execute a script shawn wilson <ag4ve.us@gmail.com> - 2015-11-17 22:20 +0100
                Re: how execute a script tomas@tuxteam.de - 2015-11-17 23:10 +0100
                Re: how execute a script shawn wilson <ag4ve.us@gmail.com> - 2015-11-17 23:20 +0100
                Re: how execute a script shawn wilson <ag4ve.us@gmail.com> - 2015-11-17 23:30 +0100
                Re: how execute a script tomas@tuxteam.de - 2015-11-18 09:10 +0100
                Re: how execute a script John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2015-11-17 22:40 +0100
                Re: how execute a script Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2015-11-17 21:30 +0100
                Re: how execute a script Luis Felipe Tabera Alonso <taberalf@unican.es> - 2015-11-17 22:10 +0100
                Re: how execute a script Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2015-11-18 00:10 +0100
                Re: how execute a script Don Armstrong <don@debian.org> - 2015-11-18 01:10 +0100
                Re: how execute a script <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2015-11-18 09:30 +0100
                Re: how execute a script David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2015-11-18 16:00 +0100
                Re: how execute a script <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2015-11-18 16:20 +0100
                Re: how execute a script David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2015-11-18 16:40 +0100
              Re: how execute a script David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2015-11-17 21:20 +0100
              Re: how execute a script <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2015-11-17 22:00 +0100
                Re: how execute a script Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2015-11-18 00:10 +0100
                Re: how execute a script <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2015-11-18 09:30 +0100
                Re: how execute a script Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2015-11-18 13:50 +0100
          Re: how execute a script <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2015-11-17 19:20 +0100

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