dumb question

Paul Allen Newell pnewell at cs.cmu.edu
Wed Jan 4 08:38:01 UTC 2012


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On 1/4/2012 12:32 AM, Ed Greshko wrote:
>
> Well, I'm sorry you'd panic....

I wish I had qualified that statement with a "smile" ... please allow me 
to edit prior comment.


> We'd just use the "file" command to find out what the intended use is
> and adhere to a standard of putting #!/bin/bash or whatever shell as the
> first line of a file...
>

In my world, nobody wanted to have to run "file" as we believe the 
intent of the file should be obvious on a "ls". We tried to never parse 
on extension, it was just used as a clue to what the intent was

Thanks,
Paul


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