Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/showerthoughts

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Because both ways are used. Microsoft relies on file names, linux on the first bytes of the file.

[–] p_consti 20 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Not quite correct. For html, that is to signal standard compliance, you can leave it away and the browser will still handle it. For the bash one, all (most) shell scripts use .sh, so you need to give a shebang to tell the loader which executable (sh, bash, zsh, csh, ...) to use

Also on Linux xdg does take file extensions into account, just executables do not

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

You're right, my comment was oversimplified.