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in thread Interact external Program's child.

first of all let's see if is really a bash script

file external.sh

I have no policy to edit the external.sh

Can you read-only open it?

If you can, then let's see if zless can open it or not

zless external.sh

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Re^4: Interact external Program's child.
by gyrson (Novice) on Nov 06, 2011 at 14:09 UTC
    file external.sh shows that it's a ksh-script. zless does not work, but as mentioned to JavaFan, my problem there is not tecnically. I'm not allowed to change/edit/copy that file. It belongs to another OrgUnit which has a very isolated politic.
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      file external.sh shows that it's a ksh-script.
      That conflicts with the output of "more /tools/external.sh".
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Re^4: Interact external Program's child.
by JavaFan (Canon) on Nov 07, 2011 at 10:00 UTC
    It looks like an ELF binary, as shown by the more statement. Which makes me think it's highly unlikely to be decompressable into something humanly readable.
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