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[-] ZILtoid1991@kbin.social 56 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Andrew15_5@mander.xyz 27 points 1 year ago

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

[-] nothacking@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 1 year ago

.elf is the closest thing we have.

[-] RickyRigatoni@lemmy.ml 30 points 1 year ago

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

YES BROTHER KILL THE ELVES

[-] 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

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