Here's a tricky one you should find an interesting challenge.

Issue:

Write a program or script that:
- Reads from STDIN.
- For every line received, base64 encode it, and output the result on a new line to STDOUT.

Make the program excutable and store it at /usr/local/bin/task7_test

Having done all this and put a script called "eric" at the correct location with "777" permissions containing the base64 encoder command, when run, it gives a "fork/exec /usr/local/bin/task7_test: permission denied" error.

Seems it may be a bug or summat.

Any ideas? box is Ubuntu 16

ML

Try posting the script(s) here. It's hard to guess otherwise. Except for 777, you don't want that.

shell script "eric", contents "base64"

That's it

permissions are 777, doesn't seem to matter

ML

Try posting the script(s) here.
if it was a few line only, just copy it here, in between [code] and [/code]
Otherwise we can only imagine what you have made and you can only imagine the answer... but doesn't seem to matter

What are the permissions of the directory /usr/local/bin/task7_test?