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Re: *.txt files

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sprocket_dk wrote:Hej I can't seem to open txt files. When I double click on a txt file nothing happens. Am I missing some program here?
That's weird. Are you sure those files aren't empty? e.g. do they have a file length? Maybe it's just the file associations that got messed up? Do you use KDE or GNOME?
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Files with a .txt file association tend to be treated as executable text files but certainly something should happen....
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Husse wrote:Files with a .txt file association tend to be treated as executable text files
Huh??? On which OS and from which parallel Universe?
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I have no problem to open the .txt files with the text editor...:wink: your problems are surprising, or I misunderstand you (that is always possible)
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scorp123 wrote:
Husse wrote:
Files with a .txt file association tend to be treated as executable text files
Huh??? On which OS and from which parallel Universe?
:):)
Most something.txt on my Mint, but much something.txt comes from my ntfs partition so that may be it...
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linuxviolin wrote: your problems are surprising, or I misunderstand you (that is always possible)
Pas de f***ing kidding, I had the very same thought :lol:
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Husse wrote: something.txt comes from my ntfs partition so that may be it...
Yes, because there those files (and everything else) get the execute bit set unless you set the "noexec" parameter or use a proper Linux filesystem which is able to report the correct bit settings (rwx ..) to the system. This has not really something to do with the *.txt files being really 'executable' but rather how Linux is interpreting stuff from non-Linux filesystems.
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Yaeh - that's it, but I've got some .txt files not coming from ntfs being like that too....
So much so that it's been annoying - but normal .txt don't - just checked
It was so much that I was beginning to think it was something with the .txt - and you don't use file extensions much in Linux....
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Husse wrote: Yaeh - that's it, but I've got some .txt files not coming from ntfs being like that too....
Maybe they originate from Windows or some other non-UNIX-like OS? Could be then that somehow that execute bit got preserved.
Husse wrote: So much so that it's been annoying

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 find . -name *.[Tt][Xx][Tt] -type f -print -exec chmod 644 {} \;
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