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The second set ( r-x) are the privileges for group access and the last set (also r-x) shows the privileges for all other user on this system. The first three (in this case rwx) are the privileges for the file’s owner. There are three sets of three flags or bits. The file access privileges are shown next. (A directory will show d, a symbolic link will show l, etc.) The leading dash designates this item as a file. The file mode is displayed in the first ten characters in this output: -rwxr-xr-x. You can see this information with the long form of the ls command: > ls -l 1 armin staff hello.sh This information is stored in the executable bit of the file privileges or file mode. You have to the tell the system that this file can be executed as a command. Executable BitĪside from the actual script code, a shell script requires one more thing that distinguishes it from any other text file. zsh file extensions are also not automatically recognized by the Finder or text editors as shell scripts. sh file extension works well for all these scripts. While this can be useful in some workflows-especially when translating scripts from bash to zsh-it is generally not necessary. zsh file extensions to further distinguish scripts written specifically in bash or zsh.

macOS User Guide: Choose an app to open a file on Mac.

This will set your favorite text editor as the default application for the. sh extension with your favorite text editor, click on the ‘Change All…’ button here. To tell the system to open all files with a. The popup list will show all applications you have installed that can open. In the ‘Open with’ section you can tell Finder which application to use to open this file. In the ‘General’ section of the info panel, you can see that Finder recognizes this file extension as a shell script. Then select the script file in Finder and open its Info panel (⌘I).

To do this, rename the file so it has the extension again: > mv hello hello.sh sh file extension to be opened in your favored text editor when you double-click the file in Finder. sh file extension tells Finder and other applications what kind of file this is.

It is very common to remove the file extension in these cases. sh is cumbersome and does not ‘fit in’ very well with all the other command line tools. When you use the script frequently as a command line tool, typing the additional. When you rename the file to merely hello it will remain a functional script: > mv hello.sh hello As we have mentioned before, all shell script files are text files. In the previous part, we created a text file and named it hello.sh. I will publish one part every week over the summer. This series is an excerpt from the first chapter of my upcoming book “Scripting macOS” which will teach you to use and create shell scripts on macOS.