Files with .sh extension

[Corey Vaillancourt]

I just downloaded the Quake 3 test. At the end of the file there are the extensions as follows .gz.sh. I have used gunzip before but i have no idea about this .sh extension. Can any body help me?

Also I need help activating the following extensions .exe and .bin

[Antho]

.sh extensions usually denote a shellscript.

[plasmid]

just keep in mind that there are no hard and fast rules about extensions in linux/unix. there are certainly conventions, such as .tar.gz is used for a gzipped tar archive, but the tar program will unzip the file all the same without that extension added.

[Antho]

You might try the file command,i.e.;

file foo.gz.sh

and see what it returns. Run man file for more info.

[sans-hubris]

do this: sh filename.sh

or even:

chmod 755 filename.sh
./filename.sh


with the second one, you would then be able to execute the file from that point on by just typing ./filename.sh

.exe and .bin are NOT executables under Unix/Linux. Executables often don't have extensions to them under Unix/Linux.