I am routinely editing shell scripts (bash). One of them gets quarantined whenever I modify it. When I run it, I get the error: $ ./opg.sh -bash: ./opg.sh: /bin/bash: bad interpreter: Operation not permitted The solution is to reset the quarantine flag. Then the script runs: $ xattr -d com.apple.quarantine opg.sh $ ./opg.sh Missing or invalid option ... Must be one of: start, stop, status, check, or log My question: why is that ? I have tons of other bash scripts, in the same directory and in other directories. I can edit them and they do not get quarantined. Only this one does. Any idea why ? It does not seem to be related to the editor I use (I use bbedit and textedit - same effect). I guess it must be something to do with the content of the script. But I can't see what ...