Selecting an application

[Richard Gaskin]

Yennie at aol.com wrote:

> I should add... I've never seen a UNIX app *with* a file extension, so it may
> work to check for a combination of executable privileges _and_ no file
> extension. Generally a proper script will be executable but end with .sh, .pl,
> .mt, .php, etc, although the OS doesn't enforce this, while the actual app
> will have no file extension.

That was the rule I was about to work with, but just to be safe: can you
think of any other file types in addition to apps that have no extension?

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