Jan 7, 2015 · MS Windows generally uses a file's extension to determine how to open/execute it. Binary executables need to have a .exe extension. If you have a UNIX-like shell installed …

Feb 4, 2015 · 38 does using the .bash extension actually invoke bash or does it depend on system config / 1st shebang line. If you do not use an interpreter explicitly, then the interpreter …

Jun 8, 2009 · Here is the algorithm I used for finding the name and extension of a file when I wrote a Bash script to make names unique when names conflicted with respect to casing.

Typically a .sh file is a shell script which you can execute in a terminal. Specifically, the script you mentioned is a bash script, which you can see if you open the file and look in the first line of …

Jan 2, 2009 · You can use the "file" command if you actually want to find out information about the file rather than rely on the extensions. If you feel comfortable with using the extension you can …

To make my question clear, I was creating a bash script to extract any given archive just by a single command of extract path_to_file. How to extract the file is determined by the script by …

Apr 20, 2014 · These are called file extensions. By convention, shell scripts including Bash scripts get a .sh extension (for "SHell script"). Note that this is not a requirement for the script to …

Intentionally portable files can usually use the least featureful shell's name/extension (and in the very small corner case of for example supporting both bash and zsh but nothing else, you …

Aug 1, 2016 · Update This question does not ask about any opinion. I clearly stated that I would like to know if there is a standardized file extension for this kind of scripts. This question is …

Apr 19, 2010 · Closer @tripleee: this is not a duplicate of Extract filename and extension in Bash. The other more complex Q requires the extension and filename be separate. If anything, the …