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> So what's a comfile? Clearly it's a shell script, yeah? So why're they called comfiles? It's short for "command files".

The vestige I'm amused by on my (BSD) systems is <foo>.S files. "S" for "Source". From the time when "source code" meant "assembly". Python, zig, C++, C, etc would be invented later...

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