Newbie Questions

Warren Young warren@etr-usa.com
Wed Feb 5 21:17:00 GMT 2014


On 2/5/2014 11:30, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
> On 2/5/2014 1:25 PM, Mike Rushton wrote:
>> does cygwin have a preferred extension for scripts ?
>
> No, the extension can be whatever you like.  By convention, bash/sh scripts
> with extensions use ".sh".

I'd bet there are more Bourne shell scripts in the world with no 
extension at all than .sh.

For the most part, Mike, POSIXy systems like Cygwin and Linux use magic 
bytes[1] and the shebang line[2] to figure out what is contained in a 
given file, rather than the file name.


[1] http://goo.gl/5F9P33
[2] http://goo.gl/XjINSi


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