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[Joe Zeff]

On 08/11/2011 10:39 AM, Frank Cox wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Aug 2011 10:38:07 -0430
> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>
>> Besides which, a shell script named "a.out" would arouse my suspicions.
>> Although not illegal, I would regard it as an attempted Trojan.
>
> a.out is the default name of the executable file that's created by  C compilers
> on Unix systems when a filename is not specifically requested on the
> commandline.
>

True.  However, there's no good reason that I can think of to use that 
name for a shell script, and that's what Patrick O'Callaghan was writing 
about.