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in reply to Re^4: Execute a Perl code without ".pl" extension
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At least where I'm sitting, "executables" are sometimes compiled, sometimes perl scripts, sometimes shell scripts...you get the idea. I use the "file" command to tell me what's what. And hey...file uses magic...really. The file that stores the heuristics that it uses for guessing is /etc/magic. :)

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