On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 3:24 PM, <to...@tuxteam.de> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 03:15:21PM -0500, shawn wilson wrote: >> > % file t.sh >> > t.sh: ASCII text >> > % cat t.sh >> > max=10 >> > >> >> Oh and before someone says "but there's some standard that says you're >> supposed to put a shebang at the top" - afaik, it's not in POSIX >> anywhere: >> http://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/various/shebang/ > > You forgot to mention that it's in AT&T Unix since 1979. I'd venture to > say that nowadays it is an integral part of Unix. >
Merely pointing out it's not a spec. But yeah, it's older than me :) >> So, magic dropped the ball - should've been identified as a shell >> script (due to the use of "echo" > > 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.
