On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 04:21:37PM -0500, ./aal wrote:
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> can "source" be used to exec a binary file?

        No; the shell machinery looks for the #! in line 1 to know how
        to handle the named script; for an ELF executable it will read
        the ELF header and try to execute an exec named "ELF".




                                                        John

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