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What are non-executable files?
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Non-executable files are all those that do not fall under the definition of an executable file.
Executable files are binary files whose content is interpreted by the computer as a program. Determining whether a file is executable is mostly a matter of convention. Some operating systems rely on the file extension (such as the ending .exe, .com on Windows) and others do so by reading the metadata (such as the execute permission bits on Unix).
Examples of NON-executable files are: images (.jpg, .gif, .png, .bmp), documents (.doc, .txt, .pdf), sound (.wav, .mp3, .ogg), video (.mpg , .avi), etc
While the executables in Windows and MS-DOS are: executables (.exe, .com) and scripts (.bat, .pif).
Considering scripts executable is questionable because they are not compiled, but are interpreted at the moment using an interpreter (which would be the real executable). In any case, they can be considered executable.
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