just so you know, like

[perlmonger]

bash (at least up to 3.00.16) isn’t clever enough to look past a BOM to see a shebang. This might be of interest if you have, say, a Perl script running as a cron job that you update, the replacement version being utf-8 encoded...

“cannot execute binary file” indeed.

That’s all.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

that's actually the kernel, not bash.

[perlmonger.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the datapoint, whoever you are :)

Still IWBNI it worked, whatever is responsible for the check...