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nrclark 19 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Binfmtc – binfmt_misc C scripting interface

I'd have expected this to need a hashbang (#!/bin/sh) at the beginning. Why doesn't it?

rwmj 18 days ago [–]

Because your shell will execute anything that looks like a text file & has +x bit set as a shell script.

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