installing scripts (was:Re: [Bioperl-l] GFF scripts)

[Aaron J Mackey]

Similarly, many shell scripts are named "dothejob.sh" or "batchthis.csh",
because they're often invoked as "/bin/sh dothejob.sh", i.e. the scripts
are input files to an interpreter.  Shell shebang chicanery aside, I also
prefer seeing the ".pl" on an executable, as a gentle reminder that I
should execute "/my/favorite/debugging/perl -d script.pl" and not "gdb
script core" when things go wrong.

-Aaron

On Tue, 12 Aug 2003, Ewan Birney wrote:

>
> > If I am not mistaken, these are end-user scripts, so I probably will
> > remove the .pl extension for the fink package, because Mac OS X is
> > UNIX, and put a warning in the package description . I post it also
> > here to see what the bioperl folks think of this - maybe there is
> > another solution I overlooked?
> >
>
> if you like, but every unix I system have worked on usually use .pl for
> perl scripts, (and the .pm of course for perl5 modules). I suspect the guy
> who making such an impassionate plea for no .pl is slightly over-egging
> the pudding...
>
>
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> >
> > thanks,
> >
> > - Koen.
> >
> >
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