-bash:: /bin/bash: bad interpreter: Operation not permitted

Question

I recently replaced adoptopenjdk-13 with adoptopenjdk-16. I have a script file that uses the tool by name, so I changed it from 13 to 16. Its new contents:

#!/bin/bash
if [ -z ${JAVA_OPTS+x} ]
then
  # Set some defaults
  JAVA_OPTS=""
fi
/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/adoptopenjdk-16.jdk/Contents/Home/bin/java $JAVA_OPTS -jar $CROMWELL_HOME/womtool.jar "$@"

me $  which bash
/bin/bash
me $  ll /usr/local/cromwell
total 16
drwxr-xr-x   6 root  wheel   192B Sep 27 12:43 ./
drwxr-xr-x  23 root  wheel   736B Nov 10  2020 ../
-rwxr-xr-x@  1 root  wheel   210B Sep 27 12:42 cromwell*
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel    39B Jul 14 15:14 cromwell.jar
-rwxr-xr-x@  1 root  wheel   208B Sep 27 12:41 womtool*
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel    38B Jul 14 15:14 womtool.jar
m082166@me $ $CROMWELL_HOME/womtool validate MyWDL.wdl
-bash: /usr/local/cromwell/womtool: /bin/bash: bad interpreter: Operation not permitted
me $  /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/adoptopenjdk-16.jdk/Contents/Home/bin/java $JAVA_OPTS -jar $CROMWELL_HOME/womtool.jar validate MyWDL.wdl
Success!

Why is bash refusing to let me run the script, when running the contents of the script is perfectly fine? This literally just broke after I updated the script file to point to the correct tool

Answer 1

Thanks to elfshift This was the answer. Apparently the MacOS decided to put those files into "quarantine", and so wouldn't let me run the files

sudo xattr -d com.apple.quarantine /usr/local/cromwell/*

fixed the issue

Answer 2

To view the extended attributes of the file (my filename is script.sh):

xattr -l script.sh

If you see com.apple.quarantine in the list of attributes, remove it using this command:

xattr -d com.apple.quarantine my-file.sh

If you have multiple files, feel free to update the last parameter as it fits.