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Re:Shell Script Best Practices, from a decade of scripting t... by nephrite on Thursday October 27, 2022 @05:17AM (#33355140)
In my setup, I use aliases or functions to have short/mnemonic names for commands. But the files on disk must always have proper extensions like .sh to quickly see what they are.
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Re:Shell Script Best Practices, from a decade of scripting t... by erlkonig on Thursday October 27, 2022 @07:06AM (#33355846)
The extensions are improper from the outset. Commands should not have extensions.
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