Re: Need help with shell script.

On Mon, 10 Aug 2026 23:58:49 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:

> 
> “But it’s MY FILE! I created it, it belongs to me, I have full access
> over it! What possible ‘permission’ am I being denied?”
> 
> Answer: execute access.
>

Execute permissions are only required if the file is being handled
by the kernel execve() system call.

Otherwise, any executable file can be executed without having
execute permission by simply invoking the appropriate interpreter.

For binary execs:

/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 file

For perl scripts:

perl file.pl

Of course, strip any exec permissions before demonstrating this.






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