Hi. On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 09:14:40AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > Debian 9.1 with MATE installed from DVD set. > > Due a non-reproducible sequence of events, a binary executable was over > written by the contents of a man page in pure text format. For unknown > reason, the > resulting file was tagged as executable.
Replace your HDD today, don't give it another chance to corrupt your data. > A custom MATE launcher pointed the corrupted file. > When the launcher icon was clicked there was no response whatsoever. > Including *NO ERROR MESSAGE* > Is this a bug or a feature? > If a feature, why? A (mis)feature. Any executable text file without defined shebang is a shell script. In this case - a syntactically invalid shell script. So it can be executed, but the child shell will exit immediately. Reco
