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From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: the #! notation
Message-ID: <2950@sixhub.UUCP>
Date: 23 Jan 91 03:47:46 GMT
References: <1991Jan16.162705.580@cid.aes.doe.CA>
Reply-To: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen)
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In article <1991Jan16.162705.580@cid.aes.doe.CA> afsipmh@cidsv01.cid.aes.doe.CA () writes:
| 
|  Could someone clear up something for me?
|  - If i put #! /bin/csh on the first line of a script

  This is normally done by the kernel (if at all). It seems to me
there's a mechanism in SysV which put a line like

	: uses /bin/csh

as the first line, but I can't remember where I saw it. At any rate the
#! notation went into V.4, so it's now official.
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