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Linux doesn’t have a standard file extension for executable files, and that wouldn’t have been good for this meme.

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You can: ./texteditor, ./bin/texteditor, “texteditor binary”, “(local) texteditor program”.

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.elf is the closest thing we have.

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I hate elves. If I see any elves in my computer I’m throwing it in the forge.

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YES BROTHER KILL THE ELVES

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Eh, .elf is more for really low level ELF files, so a program would just be named program, a kernel would be named kernel.elf

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