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$ bash date /bin/date: /bin/date: cannot execute binary file $ bash -c date Thu Apr 14 19:27:08 EDT 2016

What does the error message of bash date mean? What does bash expect date to be?

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The reason bash throws this error is becaue /bin/date is a binary file. It expects it to be a shell script, and it would work if it was.

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means you execute a shell script called file, but with -c it reads the input as a sequence of bash commands.

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