Greetings, Warren Young! >>> does cygwin have a preferred extension for scripts ? >> >> No, the extension can be whatever you like. By convention, bash/sh scripts >> with extensions use ".sh".
> I'd bet there are more Bourne shell scripts in the world with no > extension at all than .sh. If you read his reply carefully, you will notice he explicitly stated "with extension"... > For the most part, Mike, POSIXy systems like Cygwin and Linux use magic > bytes[1] and the shebang line[2] to figure out what is contained in a > given file, rather than the file name. > [1] http://goo.gl/5F9P33 > [2] http://goo.gl/XjINSi -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdae...@yandex.ru) 06.02.2014, <02:01> Sorry for my terrible english... -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
