Problem with execution of binary file

Fri Nov 4 10:50:00 GMT 2011

On 11/4/2011 3:50 AM, Edvardsen KÃ¥re wrote:
>>> On 11/3/2011 4:56 PM, Eliot Moss wrote:
>> Ok, so here's one thing about bash: to get it to
>> run an *executable* (as opposed to a *script*),
>> you need to say "bash -c FLEXPART_GFORTRAN".
>> You might try strace on that. In addition to the
>> objdump suggestion.
>>>> I have a moment to expand on this a little. The
>> 80-byte read we saw was bash looking at the
>> beginning of what it that was supposed to be a
>> script (not a binary) and seeing if it really
>> appeared to be a script. I did not look like a
>> script, so bash gave up. (It checks whether the
>> first line is all printable characters or white
>> space.)
>>>> Best -- Eliot Moss
>>>> Hmm, wonder why bash would interpret it as a script. Anyway, I will get
> back to you later with output from strace and objdump.

Because you did not specify -c ... EM
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