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Ah! Thanks. I guess if they need a second color, they could mark the file `setuid` as well. :P This is clever, but I wouldn't trust any tool that marks not-intentionally-executable things as executable.


They are in fact executable!

> Due to the initial exec line in the log files, you can resubmit a job by executing it as a shell command file, i.e. running sh $jobid.

(and many shells have a legacy behavior of running a file as a script if it doesn't start with a #! line.)


> (and many shells have a legacy behavior of running a file as a script if it doesn't start with a #! line.)

execlp and execvp are actually guaranteed to do this in POSIX-2017, although shells might also do this themselves if they resolve $PATH by themselves.




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