Re: how execute a script

From	Martin Str\|mberg <ams@ludd.luth.se>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: how execute a script
Date	2015-11-16 07:00 +0100
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In article <qvjTP-2Cs-1@gated-at.bofh.it> David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote:
> As for script-file extensions in DOS, there was really only .BAT
> wasn't there?, so the idea of distinguishing .bash, .csh, .py, .pl,
> .sh, .zsh etc as being inherited from DOS is difficult for me to
> understand.

Perhaps it's because (MS)DOS begat WINDOWS that only knew how to run
something based on the extension?

And that is why we shudder on the sight of a (unnecessary?) extension?

-- 
MartinS

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Re: how execute a script Martin Str|mberg <ams@ludd.luth.se> - 2015-11-16 07:00 +0100
  Re: how execute a script Chris Bannister <cbannister@slingshot.co.nz> - 2015-11-16 07:30 +0100
  Re: how execute a script David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2015-11-16 20:40 +0100
    Re: how execute a script Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2015-11-16 23:40 +0100
      Re: how execute a script <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2015-11-17 09:30 +0100
      Re: how execute a script shawn wilson <ag4ve.us@gmail.com> - 2015-11-17 15:40 +0100
        Re: how execute a script Chris Bannister <cbannister@slingshot.co.nz> - 2015-11-17 19:10 +0100
          Re: how execute a script shawn wilson <ag4ve.us@gmail.com> - 2015-11-17 19:10 +0100
            Re: how execute a script Elimar Riesebieter <riesebie@lxtec.de> - 2015-11-17 19:30 +0100
              Re: how execute a script shawn wilson <ag4ve.us@gmail.com> - 2015-11-17 20:10 +0100
            Re: how execute a script Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2015-11-17 20:00 +0100
              Re: how execute a script shawn wilson <ag4ve.us@gmail.com> - 2015-11-17 20:10 +0100
                Re: how execute a script Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2015-11-17 21:00 +0100
                Re: how execute a script shawn wilson <ag4ve.us@gmail.com> - 2015-11-17 21:00 +0100
                Re: how execute a script shawn wilson <ag4ve.us@gmail.com> - 2015-11-17 21:10 +0100
                Re: how execute a script shawn wilson <ag4ve.us@gmail.com> - 2015-11-17 21:20 +0100
                Re: how execute a script <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2015-11-17 22:00 +0100
                Re: how execute a script shawn wilson <ag4ve.us@gmail.com> - 2015-11-17 22:20 +0100
                Re: how execute a script tomas@tuxteam.de - 2015-11-17 23:10 +0100
                Re: how execute a script shawn wilson <ag4ve.us@gmail.com> - 2015-11-17 23:20 +0100
                Re: how execute a script shawn wilson <ag4ve.us@gmail.com> - 2015-11-17 23:30 +0100
                Re: how execute a script tomas@tuxteam.de - 2015-11-18 09:10 +0100
                Re: how execute a script John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2015-11-17 22:40 +0100
                Re: how execute a script Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2015-11-17 21:30 +0100
                Re: how execute a script Luis Felipe Tabera Alonso <taberalf@unican.es> - 2015-11-17 22:10 +0100
                Re: how execute a script Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2015-11-18 00:10 +0100
                Re: how execute a script Don Armstrong <don@debian.org> - 2015-11-18 01:10 +0100
                Re: how execute a script <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2015-11-18 09:30 +0100
                Re: how execute a script David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2015-11-18 16:00 +0100
                Re: how execute a script <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2015-11-18 16:20 +0100
                Re: how execute a script David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2015-11-18 16:40 +0100
              Re: how execute a script David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2015-11-17 21:20 +0100
              Re: how execute a script <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2015-11-17 22:00 +0100
                Re: how execute a script Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2015-11-18 00:10 +0100
                Re: how execute a script <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2015-11-18 09:30 +0100
                Re: how execute a script Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2015-11-18 13:50 +0100
          Re: how execute a script <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2015-11-17 19:20 +0100

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