[X-Unix] Any way to email a doubleclickable shell script?

[Richard Hartman]

On Jan 23, 2008, at 3:07 PM, Richard Hartman wrote:

>
> On Jan 23, 2008, at 3:06 PM, Jerry Krinock wrote:
>
>> I've created a shell script, actually a perl script, and given it  
>> a .command extension, so it executes on my Mac when I doubleclick it.
>>
>> I'd like to email it to a non-Terminal-savvy user.  But when I  
>> attach the file to an email, send it, receive it, and save the  
>> attachment to the desktop, the email client (Microsoft Entourage)  
>> writes it with octal '644' permissions, so it won't execute.
>>
>> Is there any way around this?
>>
>
> Can you zip it and attach the zip? (Maybe apple's zip doesn't  
> preserve permissions?)
>

Of course, I'm sure the canonical way to do this is to tar it, then  
zip the tiny tarball for attachment. That would surely preserve  
everything necessary, but would require some "man" effort for us  
novices :o)