Newbie Questions
Andrey Repin
anrdaemon@yandex.ru
Wed Feb 5 22:05:00 GMT 2014
Greetings, Warren Young!
>>> 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.
If you read his reply carefully, you will notice he explicitly stated "with
extension"...
> 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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WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@yandex.ru) 06.02.2014, <02:01>
Sorry for my terrible english...
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