mikey_111 Posted April 24, 2005 Report Share Posted April 24, 2005 I was wondering why there is a .real like... /usr/sbin/sndconfig.real /usr/sbin/sndconfig and a few others. What is the .real extension? Thanks, mikey_111 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Scrimpshire Posted April 24, 2005 Report Share Posted April 24, 2005 File extensions mean absolutely nothing to Linux. The file /usr/sbin/sndconfig is probably just a shell script that calls the compiled C program sndconfig.real and they just call them that, so you know that one is the one you call and the other is the one that actually does the work. I can call a file script.thisonereallyworks or script.thisonecallstheonethatreallyworks if I want. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikey_111 Posted April 25, 2005 Author Report Share Posted April 25, 2005 Thanks, Steve for the reply. I was just wondering if there was any significance to it like .cfg and .config are configuration files. I was thinking that perhaps sndconfig.real meant that it was the _real_ sndconfig not just the script that called it. I think I had too much free time today :-) mikey_111 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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