Script doesn't accept magic commands

[matthiasdiener]

$ cat script
.help

$ runalyzer summary.dat  script
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/mdiener/miniforge3/envs/ceesd/bin/runalyzer", line 7, in <module>
    exec(compile(f.read(), __file__, 'exec'))
  File "/Users/mdiener/Work/emirge/logpyle/bin/runalyzer", line 37, in <module>
    main()
  File "/Users/mdiener/Work/emirge/logpyle/bin/runalyzer", line 25, in main
    exec(compile(open(args[1]).read(), args[1], 'exec'),
  File "script", line 1
    .help
    ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax