Re: how execute a script

From	Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: how execute a script
Date	2015-11-17 21:30 +0100
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On Tue 17 Nov 2015 at 14:57:58 -0500, shawn wilson wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 2:53 PM, Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> wrote:
> > On Tue 17 Nov 2015 at 14:05:25 -0500, shawn wilson wrote:
> >
> >> On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 1:56 PM, Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> wrote:
> >> > On Tue 17 Nov 2015 at 13:08:49 -0500, shawn wilson wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 1:02 PM, Chris Bannister
> >> >> <cbannister@slingshot.co.nz> wrote:
> >> >> > On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 09:31:53AM -0500, shawn wilson wrote:
> >> >> >> On Nov 16, 2015 5:37 PM, "Lisi Reisz" <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >> >> > department has been trying for an hour".  Puzzled, because I thought I had
> >> >> >> > sent a .pdf, and had checked that it opened fine in Evince, I looked at
> >> >> >> the
> >> >> >> > file - groaned - and renamed scan-foo to scan-foo.pdf.  When resent it
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> communicated (via its extension). If you create a pdf, it is bad to not
> >> >> >> have the pdf extension - you've lost data.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > How have you lost data?
> >> >>
> >> >> You loose what the file type (data) should be if you save a file w/o
> >> >> an extension. Again, this is fine for an installed program (no one
> >> >> cares as long as it works) but not so good for data that is processed
> >> >> by another program or a script I want to edit.
> >> >
> >> > You would have to give a specific example where a file processed by a
> >> > program or script fails to open for this argument to be convincing, You
> >> > also have to distinguish between data in the file and information the
> >> > extension conveys to the program.
> >>
> >> How about just that vim filetype relies on the filename to determine the format?
> >
> > "vim filetype". I don't know what you mean. 'vim /usr/bin/vim' opens the
> > file.  I do not understand a word of the display but it does open it. An
> > extension doesn't seem to have a part to play in the file's opening.
> >
> 
> Your way of setting filetype is by looking at the extension - for example:
> :autocmd BufRead *.js set filetype=javascript
> 
> Same goes for *.pl or *.pm or *.py or *.c, etc

You have completely lost me now. You were the one who said

 You loose what the file type (data) should be if you save a file w/o                                                
 an extension.

I'm saying you do not need an extension to open a file.

I've also asked for a *concrete example* of a program not opening a file
because of the lack of an extension. It hasn't yet been given.

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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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