What do I do with unix executable files??

Hi guys,
I recently filmed a short movie with my friend. I used a Panasonic camera to film with a tdk sd card. I tried to open the video files on the sd card, but the mac can't open the files. The file extension reads as a unix executable file.
How can I open these files????
Please help!

Hi warpdesign,
   In old-style shell environments, all files in the current working directory were defined to be in your PATH, where the shell looks for executables. That was before Trojan Horses. Now you have to specify the current working directory in the command line. Fortunately there is a nice "shorthand" for that. If foo.sh is an executable in the current working directory then it can be invoked this way:
./foo.sh
   If you're interested in learning a little more about UNIX, I used to have a long post of links to what I think are some of the better beginning UNIX tutorials and books. However, as others posted great links and I stole them, my post became too long so I put it in a web page. Bill Scott did the same thing so here is Bill's and here is mine.
Gary
~~~~
   University politics are vicious precisely because the
   stakes are so small.
         -- C. P. Snow

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