Re: dealing with executable shell scripts

[Paul Elliott]

On Tuesday, March 20, 2012 08:16:14 PM Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Mar 2012, NightStrike wrote:
> > Yes.  There's an earlier email in this thread from somebody
> > illustrating that you don't need to morph from source to script if the
> > file doesn't actually get changed.
> 
> How will Microsoft Windows File Manager and KDE's Dolphin know how to
> open the proper program for the file if the file lacks a proper file
> extension?
> 
> Bob

But if you don't remove the extension, and it is in the $PATH varriable, you 
won't be able to get your program into debian:
http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-files.html#s-scripts


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