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From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.unix
Subject: Re: Shell scripts starting with "#"
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Date: 20 Oct 90 18:05:23 GMT
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So if you do:

	#!/bin/sh
	: || exec /bin/sh $0 $argv:q
	(alias) >/dev/null 2>&1 && exec /bin/sh $0 "$@"

It'll work for the bourne shell, the korn shell, and the c shell, whether
or not you have #! working. Geeze.
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