James Knott keyed the following on 3/6/2007 7:47 AM:
Johnny Andersson wrote:
So how does Linux know what program to open a certain file with? I
will soon
install Linux on at least one of my machines, so it would be
interesting to
know. I just would love to get rid of that file extension shit, which
annoyed me since about 1998 or so…
I could be wrong (yes, that has actually happened before <g>), but I
believe it's encoded in the first few bytes of the file. Not certain
about that though. In OS/2, the files have up to 64K bytes of extended
attributes, so the file "knows" what applications can work with it.
By the way, there are some cases when file extensions are needed in Linux
too, aren't there? For example .c, .g++, .h, .o, .tar etc. Doesn't an OGG
file in Linux need the .ogg extension?
That I don't know about. Also, file associations are a desktop thing.
The command line doesn't know about them.
Johnny is right about .c, .g++, etc.
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