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

[Richard Hartman]

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?)