A program (binary, or executable) is a file on disk somewhere, in a recognized format. Common formats include ELF on Linux, ...

Simply put, a Shell Script is a program that is run by a UNIX/Linux shell. It is a file that contains a series of commands which are executed sequentially as if they were entered on the command line ...

Meanwhile, look at the source to various searches yourself and see if anything comes to mind. Otherwise, it'll be brute force! Dave Taylor has been hacking shell scripts for a really long time, 30 ...

For example, a common issue with shell scripts is to forget to quote an environment variable that could hold a file name that contains spaces. For example, consider this really simple script: ...