dumb question

[Marvin Kosmal]

On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 11:43 PM, Ed Greshko <Ed.Greshko at greshko.com> wrote:

> On 01/04/2012 03:36 PM, Paul Allen Newell wrote:
> > Thanks for prompt reply. By this I am assuming that a
> > Makefile/makefile and its contents are not deemed a mandatory
> > executable as opposed to a *.sh? I am unclear as to what is happening
> > under the hood as I thought anything that "executes" needs to be "+x"?
>
> Makefile doesn't execute....  the "make" command executes.  As I
> mentioned, Makefile is just input to make (a.k.a. /usr/bin/make).
>
> I don't know what you mean by *.sh since the concept of extensions
> doesn't exist under Linux.  But you may also be interested to know that
> "shell" scripts (or files containing shell scripts) need not be executable.
>
> [egreshko at meimei bin]$ ll killfox
> -rwxrwxr-x. 1 egreshko egreshko 63 May 25  2011 killfox
> [egreshko at meimei bin]$ ./killfox
> firefox-bin: no process found
> plugin-container: no process found
>
> But also....
>
> [egreshko at meimei bin]$ chmod -x killfox
> [egreshko at meimei bin]$ ll killfox
> -rw-rw-r--. 1 egreshko egreshko 63 May 25  2011 killfox
> [egreshko at meimei bin]$ sh ./killfox
> firefox-bin: no process found
> plugin-container: no process found
>
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HI

What is in killfox??


Marvin
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