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From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: Perl scripts on systems without "#!"
Message-ID: <7128@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 28 Nov 89 17:01:30 GMT
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In article <256B2530.23386@ateng.com> chip@ateng.com (Chip Salzenberg) writes:
> Which is to say, "#!/bin/sh" is not portable, since you cannot count on
> _every_ user having "alias shell hashbang" in their .cshrc files.

You can if you're the system administrator at a site.

Worst case would be: the script doesn't run. User comes to you. You fix
their .cshrc and explain. No problem.

Now for scripts posted to the net, well, that's a different matter. Of
course anyone *running* stuff from the net is likely to be savvy enough
to install hashbang. Or the person who installs the code for them will.
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