11-03-2008
It's been a few months since I've posted, but I've found an easier way to do this...not to mention this was so simple a snake should have bitten me when I first generated the inquiry for you guys.
One way to convert a simple text file into an executable from a text file is to simply change the extension "txt" to "exec" on the end of the file while your in a windows VM like Parallels or VM Fusion. When you do this you'll be prompted with:..."If you change a filename extension, the file may become unusable. Are you sure you want to change it?"...
Go ahead and answer "yes" and your text file icon will immediately change to and exec file icon. Drag it to your mac desktop from the VM (or transfer it onto a thumb drive to the mac) to your Mac desktop and wa-lah!
Now you should be able to just drop it into terminal and run your script.
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gzexe
GZEXE(1) General Commands Manual GZEXE(1)
NAME
gzexe - compress executable files in place
SYNOPSIS
gzexe [ name ... ]
DESCRIPTION
The gzexe utility allows you to compress executables in place and have them automatically uncompress and execute when you run them (at a
penalty in performance). For example if you execute ``gzexe /bin/cat'' it will create the following two files:
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root bin 9644 Feb 11 11:16 /bin/cat
-r-xr-xr-x 1 bin bin 24576 Nov 23 13:21 /bin/cat~
/bin/cat~ is the original file and /bin/cat is the self-uncompressing executable file. You can remove /bin/cat~ once you are sure that
/bin/cat works properly.
This utility is most useful on systems with very small disks.
OPTIONS
-d Decompress the given executables instead of compressing them.
SEE ALSO
gzip(1), znew(1), zmore(1), zcmp(1), zforce(1)
CAVEATS
The compressed executable is a shell script. This may create some security holes. In particular, the compressed executable relies on the
PATH environment variable to find gzip and some other utilities (tail, chmod, ln, sleep).
BUGS
gzexe attempts to retain the original file attributes on the compressed executable, but you may have to fix them manually in some cases,
using chmod or chown.
GZEXE(1)