Re: how execute a script

[David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk>]

On Fri 13 Nov 2015 at 14:43:39 (+0100), tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:

> (as an aside: it's bad custom inherited from DOS to name shell scripts
> with an .sh ending. No ending is the right thing here).

So these were all DOS scripts once, were they?

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1248 Apr 21  2014 /etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3807 Apr 21  2014 /etc/init.d/checkfs.sh*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1072 Apr 21  2014 /etc/init.d/checkroot-bootclean.sh*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 9290 Apr 17  2014 /etc/init.d/checkroot.sh*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1423 Dec 31  2010 /etc/init.d/hostname.sh*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3916 Oct 15  2014 /etc/init.d/hwclock.sh*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  677 Apr 21  2014 /etc/init.d/mountall-bootclean.sh*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2138 Apr 21  2014 /etc/init.d/mountall.sh*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1461 Apr 21  2014 /etc/init.d/mountdevsubfs.sh*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1564 Apr 21  2014 /etc/init.d/mountkernfs.sh*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  685 Apr 21  2014 /etc/init.d/mountnfs-bootclean.sh*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2456 Apr 21  2014 /etc/init.d/mountnfs.sh*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2202 Apr 21  2014 /etc/init.d/umountnfs.sh*

I name my scripts in ~/bin with an extension corresponding to their
contents: .pl .py .sh etc. Where I'm working on alternative versions,
I might have more than one language. Extensionless filenames are
either links or binaries. What's bad about this? Or is it just
snobbery: Look, we don't need extensions.

Cheers,
David.