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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use "-script" postfix for scripts
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 18:27:16 -0400
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On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 02:55:01PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> Sure, I could have called it ".sh" instead to make it look even more like 
> a shell script thing, but I actually think "-script" describes any 
> scripting language - shell, perl, you name it..

See, for example, the history on git-rename-script for why this is good.

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