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Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2014 02:02:14 +0400
From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon AT yandex DOT ru>
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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


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WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon AT yandex DOT ru) 06.02.2014, <02:01>

Sorry for my terrible english...


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