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Re: composition ? piping

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Unknown <dog@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Aug 2014 10:16:50 -0500, John Hasler wrote:
> 
>> Unknown writes:
>>> cp A b.wav; aplay b.wav ; rm b.wav
>>> aplay `<process file A as fileb.wav would be processed> ?
>> 
>> aplay, like any other Unix or Linux program, doesn't give a damn about
>> suffixes.  "." is just a character and it and the characters after it
>> are just parts of the filename.  "aplay A" will work fine.
> 
> I don't promote name-dropping; and <fileTYPES> are often detectable
> from their initial bytes [? magic numbers?].
> 
> But your statement implies that job.sh SHOULD be handled the same
> as jobDOG is 'not good'. That loses a complete dimension.

The above statement makes absolutely no sense. I assume job.sh implies
that it's  a shell script and is executable. If jobDOG isn't an
executable that will be readily apparent if you try to execute it. If
you've been stupid enough to make it executable, that's *your* problem

> 
> An extreme case is my ChineseButtonAudioPlayer: it
> doesn't even distinguish between directory-nodes.
> Apparently it just examines all the files [including <dir-pointers>]
> and if it finds one of the File-types-that-it-plays, it plays
> that file.
> 
> I know for a fact that `mc` pays special attention to <file extentions>.

Perhaps because it's a clone of a DOS program?

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composition ? piping Unknown <dog@gmail.com> - 2014-08-21 20:50 +0000
  Re: composition ? piping Joe Beanfish <joebeanfish@nospam.duh> - 2014-08-22 13:39 +0000
  Re: composition ? piping John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2014-08-22 10:16 -0500
    Re: composition ? piping Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-08-22 17:13 +0000
    Re: composition ? piping Unknown <dog@gmail.com> - 2014-09-21 13:09 +0000
      Re: composition ? piping Jerry Peters <jerry@example.invalid> - 2014-09-21 20:18 +0000
        Re: composition ? piping Joe Beanfish <joebeanfish@nospam.duh> - 2014-09-22 13:39 +0000
          Re: composition ? piping Michael Baeuerle <michael.baeuerle@stz-e.de> - 2014-09-26 08:26 +0000
            Re: composition ? piping Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> - 2014-09-26 13:01 -0400
              Re: composition ? piping Michael Baeuerle <michael.baeuerle@stz-e.de> - 2014-09-29 08:54 +0000
                Re: composition ? piping Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2014-09-29 15:47 +0000
                Re: composition ? piping John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2014-09-29 11:41 -0500
            Re: composition ? piping "Anonymous Remailer (austria)" <mixmaster@remailer.privacy.at> - 2014-09-27 12:49 +0200
      Re: composition ? piping Bill Marcum <bill.marcum57@yahoo.com> - 2014-09-25 14:58 -0400

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