RE: strange "Cannot execute binary file" error message

[George Gallen <ggallen slackinc com>]

Title: strange "Cannot execute binary file" error message

very intresting, If I imbed a control character in an echo statement,

bash WILL NOT run the echo statement.

 

I had to put the characters in a file, then cat the file instead of

echoing the characters.....

 

ahhhhh....That was a strange one

 

George

-----Original Message-----
From: George Gallen [mailto:ggallen slackinc com]
Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2002 11:17 AM
To: 'enigma-list redhat com'
Subject: RE: strange "Cannot execute binary file" error message

Doesn an ESC character need to be escaped (ie. \)

 

The first echo, even though it looks like "2" is really

 

"^]L2" (esc L 2)

 

do I need to change that to be:

 

"\^]L2"?

 

This works fine on our Tru64 system, so I didn't think it needed to be

changed for bash.

 

George

-----Original Message-----
From: George Gallen [mailto:ggallen slackinc com]
Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2002 10:57 AM
To: 'enigma-list redhat com'
Subject: strange "Cannot execute binary file" error message

the "{tof}" within this message is actually a x0c Control V, Control L
The usage being: echo "testing" | ./driver.PR22

(echo -n "2" ; cat - | /usr/mbin/lf2crlf  ; echo -n "{tof}") | lp -d PR32

gives the following error:
SH: ./driver.PR22: cannot execute binary file   

and the file's permissions:
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     daemon        73 Dec 12  2000 driver.PR22

BUT.....

(cat - | /usr/mbin/lf2crlf  ; echo -n "{tof}") | lp -d PR32
works fine

and it's permissions:
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     daemon        57 Dec  5  2000 driver.PR32

any  idea of what is happening? why it won't execute the script?

George