On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 09:09:37AM -0700, Eduardo Bustamante wrote: > On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 8:17 AM Jason Hall <jasonbrianh...@gmail.com> wrote: > (...) > > The point is, their is a legitimate use for sourcing Binary Shell > > Scripts (...) > > Is it really a legitimate use? If you're doing it for "security" (by > obscurity I guess?), it's easy to defeat.
The original message reads like Jason is attempting to defeat the 'security' on a self-decrypting script by using source to add the script's variables to the current shell so their values can be viewed. Better ways to do this is a question for the help list. It's not a bug. Al