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Follow up: How to write a Linux virus

Posted Feb 16, 2009 8:57 UTC (Mon) by aleXXX (subscriber, #2742)
In reply to: Follow up: How to write a Linux virus by nix
Parent article: Follow up: How to write a Linux virus

I think xdg-open can "start" desktop files.

Alex

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Posted Feb 16, 2009 10:11 UTC (Mon) by hppnq (subscriber, #14462) [Link]

Brilliant, it can open www.pentagon.gov as well as /tmp/britney.png.

Follow up: How to write a Linux virus

Posted Feb 16, 2009 20:17 UTC (Mon) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Can it? How?

(Anyway, shell scripts cannot be interpreters for other shell scripts:
we'd need an actual binary for this job.)