Programmatically associate a file extension

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Hi,

How can we programmatically associate a file extension to my program
using Ruby.

Please send information regarding this.

Thanks in Advance,
kumar

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if you are on windows, use ftype and assoc commands.

http://www.ss64.com/nt/ftype.html

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On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 4:51 PM, Kumar Ca <kumar.anul@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

How can we programmatically associate a file extension to my program
using Ruby.

Please send information regarding this.

Thanks in Advance,
kumar

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In which operating system?

It's non-trivial.

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On 09/04/2008, at 12:51 AM, Kumar Ca wrote:

Hi,

How can we programmatically associate a file extension to my program
using Ruby.

Please send information regarding this.

Thanks in Advance,
kumar
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Jano Svitok wrote:

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On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 4:51 PM, Kumar Ca <kumar.anul@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

How can we programmatically associate a file extension to my program
using Ruby.

Please send information regarding this.

Thanks in Advance,
kumar

if you are on windows, use ftype and assoc commands.

Ftype - File type - Windows CMD - SS64.com

Thanks a lot

please give procedure for linux
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Kumar Ca wrote:

Thanks a lot

please give procedure for linux

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Kumar Ca wrote:

Jano Svitok wrote:

Hi,

How can we programmatically associate a file extension to my program
using Ruby.

Please send information regarding this.

Thanks in Advance,
kumar

if you are on windows, use ftype and assoc commands.

http://www.ss64.com/nt/ftype.html

Thanks a lot

please give procedure for linux

Linux does not use a "file extension" to associate a program with a
file. Instead, scripts typically have a "shebang" line at the top. This
is a comment to the script but, if it is present, the shell will use it
to determine what program to execute.

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On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 4:51 PM, Kumar Ca <kumar.anul@gmail.com> wrote:

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