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From: mcdaniel@amara.uucp (Tim McDaniel)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: # not honored?
Message-ID: <MCDANIEL.90Mar28143721@rollmops.amara.uucp>
Date: 28 Mar 90 19:37:21 GMT
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I'm using "Sun OS 4.0.3" on a Sun 3.

Given the two scripts
	25.sh:
		./25.csh
	25.csh:
		#
		if (1 == 1) then
			echo Hi
		else
			echo Impossible
		endif

Executing "./25.sh" gives the Bourne shell error message
	./25.csh: syntax error at line 7: `end of file' unexpected

There's an easy workaround: make the first line of a C-shell script
	#! /bin/csh -f

But I had thought that "#" as the first byte of a file meant "this is
a C shell script" (unless, of course, the first two bytes are "#!").
It appears that the Bourne shell does not respect this rule.
Should it?  (On systems where the C shell exists and uses this
convention.)


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Tim McDaniel
Applied Dynamics International, Ann Arbor, MI
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