run a file

tyranus · 09-06-2005, 08:15 AM

I am working in Debian and I need to know how can I run a file.inf and also I would like to have a reference about the file extentions.
Regards

tyranus · 09-06-2005, 10:13 AM

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Originally posted by tyranus
I am working in Debian and I need to know how can I run a file.inf and also I would like to have a reference about the file extentions.
Regards

tyranus · 09-06-2005, 10:18 AM

I'm working in Debian and i don't know how can I run a file.exe, I really aprecciate some one help me.
Tell me about linux extentions...
Regards

rednuht · 09-06-2005, 02:48 PM

linux file extension are purely optional and are there for readability and ease of management.
if you want to run a the file "file.inf" then you can set its file permissions with
chmod +x file.inf
then just run it (if you are root you might need to use the full path or ./file.inf
That is to stop root running anything locally by accident, image someone created a file ls.sh with nasty stuff in and convinced root to check the directory contents where it lay ...
and yes I did a lot of that at college

heema · 09-07-2005, 03:36 AM

if you want to determine the file type of a certain file then type :

Code:

file file.inf