linux executable file suffix
    elf Executable and Linkable Format

    1. Linux extension    |Windows Equivalent    |Short description
    2. ------------------------------------------------------------
    3. .so, .o            | .dll                 | Object that can be loaded at runtime (Similar to DLL)
    4. .a                 | .lib                 | Static library
    5. [none], .elf(rare),| .exe, .com(rare)     | Linux executables
    6.   .bin(rare)       |                      |
    7. .sh                | .bat                 | Shell script
    8. .exe               | .exe                 | Mono application, Wine application
    9. .deb               | .msi                 | Installer package for Debian/Ubuntu releases
    10.                    |                      |   (Though .deb is much more powerful with 
    11.                    |                      |   native support for dependencies and repos). Note that .deb is actually a .ar archive with a special control file, a special file order, and a different extension.
    12. .rpm               | .msi                 | Installer package for RedHat/CentOS releases.
    13. .tar.gz, .tar, .gz | .zip                 | Compressed files that can contain a program or any other data, like images, documents, etc
    14. .ko                | .sys                 | Drivers and kernel modules are loaded into the Linux kernel and have more hardware access than other programs.
    15. .sh, .php, .py, etc| .bat, .cmd, .vbs,    | Linux is capable of running any file that it has an interpreter for. 
    16.                    |   .js                |   A line at the top of the file called the shebang specifies what interpreter to run the file with. 
    17.                    |                      |   Windows only supports .bat and .cmd files as Batch files, and .vbs (vbscript) and .js (JScript, not to be confused with JavaScript) via the Windows Script Host (WSH).