> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Summerfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Monday, July 28, 2003 6:08 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Stripping trailing blanks?
>
>
> On Mon, 28 Jul 2003, McKown, John wrote:
>

<snip>

> > I invoke it in a subdirectory with:
> >
> > for i in *;do ../nonum.sh $i $i.ext;done
> >
>
> A lot of people use the dot-sh suffix. I presume some of them
> think it's
> needed.
>
<snip>

I know that UNIX does not require suffixes to tell it if a file is
executable and whatnot. I just do that out of old habit, so that I know what
all the shell scripts are without needing to actually do a "file" command or
attempt to look at them. The same with my Perl stuff ending in ".pl".

--
John McKown
Senior Systems Programmer
UICI Insurance Center
Applications & Solutions Team
+1.817.255.3225

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