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  2. Interpreter directive - Wikipedia

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    If the file system permissions on the script (a file) include an execute permission bit for the user invoking it by its filename (often found through the command search path), it is used to tell the operating system what interpreter (usually a program that implements a scripting language) to use to execute the script's contents, which may be ...

  3. Executable and Linkable Format - Wikipedia

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    An ELF file has two views: the program header shows the segments used at run time, whereas the section header lists the set of sections.. In computing, the Executable and Linkable Format [2] (ELF, formerly named Extensible Linking Format) is a common standard file format for executable files, object code, shared libraries, and core dumps.

  4. Environment variable - Wikipedia

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    The %ComSpec% variable contains the full path to the command processor; on the Windows NT family of operating systems, this is cmd.exe, while on Windows 9x, %COMSPEC% is COMMAND.COM. %OS% The %OS% variable contains a symbolic name of the operating system family to distinguish between differing feature sets in batchjobs .

  5. Magic number (programming) - Wikipedia

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    Amiga software executable Hunk files running on Amiga classic 68000 machines all started with the hexadecimal number $000003f3, nicknamed the "Magic Cookie." In the Amiga, the only absolute address in the system is hex $0000 0004 (memory location 4), which contains the start location called SysBase, a pointer to exec.library, the so-called ...

  6. PATH (variable) - Wikipedia

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    On DOS, OS/2, and Windows operating systems, the %PATH% variable is specified as a list of one or more directory names separated by semicolon (;) characters. [ 5 ] The Windows system directory (typically C:\WINDOWS\system32 ) is typically the first directory in the path, followed by many (but not all) of the directories for installed software ...

  7. Path (computing) - Wikipedia

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    A path (or filepath, file path, pathname, or similar) is a string of characters used to uniquely identify a location in a directory structure.It is composed by following the directory tree hierarchy in which components, separated by a delimiting character, represent each directory.

  8. Executable - Wikipedia

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    Executable files typically also include a runtime system, which implements runtime language features (such as task scheduling, exception handling, calling static constructors and destructors, etc.) and interactions with the operating system, notably passing arguments, environment, and returning an exit status, together with other startup and ...

  9. Mach-O - Wikipedia

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    The number of bytes to write to the address location (Address size). After the address information is the file offset the segment data is located in the Mach-O binary, and the number of bytes to read from the file. When the address size is larger than the number of bytes to read from the file, the rest of the bytes in RAM space are set 0x00.