Well I know this has been asked before but I can't find it and this pice of info seems to evade me:
What is the extention (or whatever you Linux people call it) that is years for the equivalent of win's batch file.
I can take it from there.

.bat

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AFAIK UNIX/Linux doesn't use file extensions to figure out how the program should be run. But if you're asking about Bash script you can use .sh file extension.
Or you can append "#! /bin/bash"(without quotes) to your script.

You have to put that as first line. So you have to prepend your script.
It (just) indicates that when the file permissions include executable, the shell
knows what application should be used to run the script.

Indeed, the suffix usually is .sh if you want to use a file suffix.

Both actions do not make a file executable. You'd need to set the exec bit for that.
to make it executable for everyone.

If it is not executable, run it with
jlinkels

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Yes , you are right. Actually using append instead of prepend was a typo. He didn't ask about how to run the script that's why i didn't bother to write about chmod(which i should have done).;p

Well I am even further in the dark than everyone else What does the highlighted part even mean??? What do years have to do with a batch file?

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"years" sounds a bit like "used" ...

I think the OP meant something like "on lightyears distance". Which is as matter of speech of course. I assume M$ products have not propagated thru the galaxy yet.

jlinkels

Ok one by one. If there are no extensions how does it know what to do with the file? (I heard that in the rely days of NT they put letters befor the thing) As for thé hilighted part of thé quote I'm typing with an iPod with autocorrect on and that sometimes switches to an international keyboard... I can't remember what I wanted to say but it might of been "Used". And is win's creator really copyrighted enough that you can't even say the initials. If you live in America (which you probably do) You have a freedom of speech man, end hipiness. Same with Linix's father... Why arnt we alley to say the whole thing? Well moving on. Why does this have to be so difficult? Does Linux still support the .elf too?

You may need to narrow down what sort of file you are talking about as a search for 'elf file extension' yielded 5.2 mil results and the first was:
So my answer to that would be no.

By the way ... M$ is not because it is taboo but considered more like swearing in these parts so not nice to say out loud

For example write a script hello.sh and put

It knows by the permissions on the file. Make it executable, and it'll be treated as a program...whether it DOES anything or not, depends on the contents.
What's difficult about it?? If the file permissions say it's executable, it runs. If not, it doesn't...actually MUCH simpler than Windows, which is dependent on the extension. Rename a .exe file to .txt, and see if you can run it on Windows.

There are two files on shell level: binaries and script files.
If it isn't a binary, shell looks are the first line of the script for a shebang (shebang = #!). The shebang indicates an executable which has to be used to execute the script. That is how the shell knows which application to use for the file.

Then there is also the exec bit which has to be set in order to make the shell execute that file, either a binary or a script.

If the file is not executable you still can execute it by executing a shell with the command to execute that file.

Most desktop managers or file managers have a database where you can make file associations, like associate .JPG with Gimp. But this is not a shell or linux issue. It is on top of that.

Windows OTOH doesn't know execute bits. If a file ends with .BAT it is a script, .COM and .EXE are executables. Note the non-separation of extensions from executable bit.

Then the Windows desktop manager (which is the OS itself) has a database for associations so it knows to start regedit in the background when a trojan is hidden in your mail message. Note again here the non-separation of the desktop from the OS.

jlinkels

I don't think that was what the OP meant. See, for example:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executa...inkable_Format

Or look at the output if you run `file' on any binaries on your system.

So, I'd say the answer (if I really did understand the question) is probably yes.

Cheers,

Evo2.