Re: how execute a script
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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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