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Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2014 02:16:36 +0400
From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon AT yandex DOT ru>
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Greetings, Mike Rushton!

> Right ... the extension is a windows thing.

Not really. It's a human thing, that let you tell the intended meaning of the
file at a glance.

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

Ones that not have it are scripts not intended for direct invocation (like
these normally residing in /etc/default/*)

> 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.

I'm using this little wrapper to start scripts by shebang line.

-->8-------->8-------->8-------->8-------->8-------->8-------->8------
C:\Programs\CygWin\bin\cygwrap.sh
#! /bin/sh
if [ -z "$1" ]; then
  echo "No command given, breaking off." 1>&2
  exit 1
fi

CMDNAME="$( cygpath -au "$1")"
shift

env "$CMDNAME" $*
-->8-------->8-------->8-------->8-------->8-------->8-------->8------

along with association

$ assoc .pl
.pl=unixshell.script

$ assoc .sh
.sh=unixshell.script

(etc.)

$ ftype unixshell.script
unixshell.script="C:\Programs\Cygwin\bin\env.exe" /bin/cygwrap.sh "%1" %*


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WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon AT yandex DOT ru) 06.02.2014, <02:08>

Sorry for my terrible english...


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