Peng Yu wrote: > For an executable bash script I use the suffix .sh. For a bash script > that is only source-able but runnable, I use the suffix .bashrc. > > People may use different conventions. I just want to see what most > people use and follow the common practice. Could anybody give me any > suggestions?
For an executable script I use no suffix at all. It matters not if the script is a bash script, sh, ksh, perl, ruby, or whatever. The caller shouldn't care. Something I start off writing as a shell script may over the course of time get refactored into a perl or ruby script. Or a perl script written by other people may really be nothing more than a command launcher in which case I have often refactored it into a simple shell script. Many of the programs in /bin and /usr/bin have been shell scripts or compiled executables at different stages in their lifetimes and it did not matter to the callers as long as the interface remained stable. Bob
