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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Bash script make itself executable Post 303018665 by jim mcnamara on Tuesday 12th of June 2018 10:12:06 PM
Old 06-12-2018
You really should not use /bin - a link usually to /usr/bin - for anything.

Bakunin (some others ) posted a long dicsussion of how this can make trouble for you. I cannot find the link at the moment, perhaps he can find it for you.
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