<div dir="ltr">This might be of some interest:<br><a href="http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/add-binary-payload-your-shell-scripts">http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/add-binary-payload-your-shell-scripts</a><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 3 January 2014 15:45, Paul Nijjar <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:paul_nijjar@yahoo.ca" target="_blank">paul_nijjar@yahoo.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On Fri, Jan 03, 2014 at 03:09:12PM -0500, Chris Frey wrote:<br>
> On Fri, Jan 03, 2014 at 03:02:14PM -0500, Joe Wennechuk wrote:<br>
> > root@OSCAR-MASTER /home/oscar# less /home/oscar/scripts/backup-restore/backupOSCAR.sh<br>
> > "/home/oscar/scripts/backup-restore/backupOSCAR.sh" may be a binary file. ?See it anyway??<br>
><br>
> What happens if you say yes?<br>
><br>
> Sometimes there are special characters in the first part of a file,<br>
> like a foreign name in the comments, and it tricks less.<br>
<br>
</div>I also find that text files created in Windows can mess up less. I<br>
have had good success trying to open such files using vim (in<br>
read-only mode if you want).<br>
<br>
I doubt that those scripts have been obfuscated, but it might be<br>
possible (to hide database passwords and such).<br>
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- Paul<br>
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