The following are demonstrations of the whatexec.d script. Here we run it while a few commands are also executed, # ./whatexec.d PEXEC EXEC OK TYPE bash /usr/bin/clear Y #!/u\0 bash /sbin/sh Y \177ELF\0 clear /usr/bin/tput Y \177ELF\0 bash /export/home/brendan/DOOM.EXE N MZ\644\0 ^C whatexec.d has first found that "clear" was run, which has a type that begins with "#!" - a script. clear runs "sh" and "tput", both ELF files. We finish by attempting to run a MZ file, "DOOM.EXE", which is rejected (OK is "N").