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Re:Shell Script Best Practices, from a decade of scripting t... by nrvn on Thursday October 27, 2022 @05:49AM (#33355366)
And this rule has been followed the majority(if not all) interpreted and scripting languages. The likes of Ruby, python and JS have multiple examples. Whatever executable is in your $PATH it won’t have an extension.

Not sure if this convention is actually documented anywhere.

Random examples:

- https://github.com/PyCQA/isort/blob/main/pyproject.toml#L100

- https://github.com/pypa/pip/blob/main/setup.py#L78

- https://github.com/11ty/eleventy/blob/master/package.json#L1...

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