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[โ€“] steal_your_face@lemmy.ml 65 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[โ€“] ZILtoid1991@kbin.social 55 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Linux doesn't have a standard file extension for executable files, and that wouldn't have been good for this meme.

[โ€“] Andrew15_5@mander.xyz 27 points 1 year ago

You can: ./texteditor, ./bin/texteditor, "texteditor binary", "(local) texteditor program".

[โ€“] nothacking@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

.elf is the closest thing we have.

[โ€“] RickyRigatoni@lemmy.ml 30 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I hate elves. If I see any elves in my computer I'm throwing it in the forge.

[โ€“] KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 year ago

Eh, .elf is more for really low level ELF files, so a program would just be named program, a kernel would be named kernel.elf

[โ€“] nomadjoanne@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

Oh they're just making a general point.

My gf did ask me why there wasn't an "exe" on my linux system though. But that's another story.