ramesh gandhi

[Alan McKay]

On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 1:14 AM, Mike McMullin <mwmcmlln at mnsi.net> wrote:
>  This is actually Your better first question, so I'll deal with it
> first.  Linux has a number of executable file types, binary blobs (can
> be .bin); script files (e.g. .sh ); interpreted languages (Java, python,
> etc); compiled interpreted files Python, Java et al. (Python compiled
> file is .pyc); script and binary blob (.run)

Except that those endings are fairly arbitrary, and most executables
have no special ending.

It's the execution bit in the file permissions which actually makes a
file executable.


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