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From: chip@ateng.com (Chip Salzenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: Perl scripts on systems without "#!"
Message-ID: <256B2530.23386@ateng.com>
Date: 22 Nov 89 23:01:01 GMT
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Organization: A T Engineering, Tampa, FL
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According to peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva):
>If you have the hashbang program, and !alias shell hashbang! in your
>.cshrc, then you can in addition say:
>
>	A script with "#!/bin/sh" as the first line
>	is always run by the bourne shell.

Which is to say, "#!/bin/sh" is not portable, since you cannot count on
_every_ user having "alias shell hashbang" in their .cshrc files.
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