Shell scripts can be useful for cheap automation at the possible cost of safety. However, Shell scripts are interpreted and thus are too slow for heavy computation. If only there was some way of compiling down shell scripts into a blazing fast binary.
Fake Shell Compiler is not that. While at first glance it may appear to compile shell scripts by creating executable binaries, it actually does nothing of the sort. Fake Shell Compiler embeds the source into a binary with a single call /bin/sh to execute that string.
Fake Shell Compiler is even more a fake compiler than the utilities like py2exe which bundle the interpreter into the binary, as Fake Shell Compiler outputs files with all the dependencies of the original files. It is effectively the binary equivalent of a shebang.
I do not know of a single advantage this "compiler" has over a shebang. Thus, I recommend against using Fake Shell Compiler for any purpose besides personal amusement.
./fakeshellcompiler.sh example.sh
Outputs a file named example.sh.out. Execute that file.
./example.sh.out
Arguments can be passed to the binary file
./example.sh.out 'hello world'
Run strings on the binary to see your shell script sitting inside the binary.
strings example.sh.out
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