ramesh gandhi

[Mike McMullin]

On Thu, 2009-12-17 at 07:42 -0500, Alan McKay wrote:
> 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.

  True.