Why does my shell think that .bash_aliases is an executable?

[CrazedNerd]

I've been playing with aliases a bit because they are awesome, i made several aliases to fine-tune the ls command. The one I made that i'm a little confused about, when i use it, is this one:

alias lsdh='ls -d .* | grep -v *.txt'

the intention is to show only hidden directories, yet the file ".bash_aliases" is color coded green with the * on the display. Why is the shell say my .bash_aliases is an executable? I thought it was just a configuration file, there's no shebang in the file.

 

[Fanboi]

It display that because it was marked/set 'x' (rwx, r-x) ls -l. You could mark anything chmod u+x file.jpg where 'u' can be any combo of User Group Other.
As for a shebang, #!, it is not required to run a file by explicitly stating the interpreter do so, eg: sh .bashrc
In the case of bashrc, there are commands inside to set variables and do other crap when logging in. That's why it's executed.

 

[CrazedNerd]

It display that because it was marked/set 'x' (rwx, r-x) ls -l. You could mark anything chmod u+x file.jpg where 'u' can be any combo of User Group Other.
As for a shebang, #!, it is not required to run a file by explicitly stating the interpreter do so, eg: sh .bashrc
In the case of bashrc, there are commands inside to set variables and do other crap when logging in. That's why it's executed.

Yeah I was trying to make it a file that was backed up by cron in my coding folder but it didn't work. Thanks bud. My other coding templates back up just fine.