[X-Unix] Need help w/.login and unix exec files

[Eugene]

On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 07:09:40PM CDT, ~flipper <lord.flipper at gmail.com> wrote:
: 
: Also, when i look through my files, in general, i see an awful
: lot of what used to be rather 'faceless' documents
: (.bash_history, .login, .profile, etc) that have these medium
: grey preview icons, with 'exec' in light green n them, and
: they are all showing "Unix Executable File as "Kind".
: 
: What's up with that? Are they still plain text .txt files? I
: know a couple things about Mach-O executables (they're still
: my friends) but thiis Unix executable with a proprietary
: looking icon... what version of Unix is that? The icon looks
: like something an Adobe refugee dreamed up...kinda scary, in a
: way.

You're used to the concept that "executable" implies "binary".
In Unix, this is often not the case.  There are cases where
executable files are text files.  In these cases, the text files
are simply (not always "simple") scripts executed in another
environment (e.g. shells, scripting languages like Perl, Python,
TCL, and Ruby).


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Eugene
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