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From: Robert R Schneck <schneck AT math DOT berkeley DOT edu>
Subject: Re: Fun with #! (aka shebang) and filenames ending in .exe
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 13:03:48 +0000 (UTC)
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Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu> wrote:
> 'Ware of this issue:
>
> <QUOTE from http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#AEN846>
>   If a shell script myprog and a program myprog.exe coexist in a
>   directory, the program has precedence and is selected for execution of
>   myprog.
> </QUOTE>

The original poster was actually pointing out a different issue:
If the shell script itself is named myprog.exe, it is executed as
a Windows executable rather than as a shell script.  

It would be nice if the file could be checked for beginning with "#!",
but perhaps the only real solution is Don't Do That, Then.

Robert


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