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i'm pretty new to the shell scripting world and not sure, if i should give my scripts a .sh or .bash extension.

not sure what the pros and cons are.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Just put the shebang at the top of your script:

#! /usr/bin/env bash

I'm not a big fan of extensions because if you put the script in your $PATH it's weird to type do_the_thing.bash