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Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2014 16:44:28 -0500
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Right ... the extension is a windows thing.

Most of the bourne shell scripts i have come across have no extension.
Some have the Shebang line ... while others don't have it.

I am still in the planing stages ... I am not sure if I am going to use 
an extension or not.

It might be a good idea to use .sh and then you would know that it is a 
script.


On 2/5/2014 4:17 PM, Warren Young wrote:
> On 2/5/2014 11:30, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
>> On 2/5/2014 1:25 PM, Mike Rushton wrote:
>>> 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.
>
> 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
>
>
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