diff --git a/Library/Homebrew/extend/pathname.rb b/Library/Homebrew/extend/pathname.rb
index bd0e6154e3..d171a6d6bd 100644
--- a/Library/Homebrew/extend/pathname.rb
+++ b/Library/Homebrew/extend/pathname.rb
@@ -273,6 +273,8 @@ class Pathname
 
   def text_executable?
     %r[#!\s*(/.+)+] === open('r') { |f| f.readline }
+  rescue EOFError
+    false
   end
 
   def incremental_hash(hasher)