On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 08:57:11PM +0200, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: > > Any other thoughts? > > Is there any way we could use something else than file(1) ?
Well, you can look for a script using dd and matching it against the two possible signatures. e.g., dd 2>/dev/null if=file bs=4 count=1|grep -qe '#!/./ -e '#! /' I'm not sure that's too much of a progress. There might be another way to grab the first 4 bytes of a file. Off-hand I don't see any.
