[kwlug-disc] Binary shell scripts?

[William Park]

On Fri, Jan 03, 2014 at 01:49:21PM -0500, Joe Wennechuk wrote:
> Hello..
>     I have inherited a server, and there are several backup scripts on
>     it; however, when I try to look at the scripts, bash is reporting
>     that they are binary files, and I can't open them?  What am I
>     missing here?

I'm assuming you checked permissions, so what does "file" or "vi" say?
It could be just compressed file.
-- 
William