-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 04:13:48PM -0500, shawn wilson wrote: > On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 3:24 PM, <to...@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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlZLm2MACgkQBcgs9XrR2kZQaACfUEYXN1YCBt94CoWABtYuzl+v AsUAn04zBdR0IFSEy/As5nnHii3/ixU0 =gzE/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
