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From: aland@informix.com (Colonel Panic)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: sh and csh scripts (SCO ODT 1.0 with SCO Unix 3.2.1)
Keywords: sh csh scripts
Message-ID: <1991Jan29.230217.14825@informix.com>
Date: 29 Jan 91 23:02:17 GMT
References: <1991Jan23.225748.23327@sj.ate.slb.com> <8836@star.cs.vu.nl> <1991Jan25.195557.25955@kithrup.COM>
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In article <1991Jan25.195557.25955@kithrup.COM> sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan) writes:
>In article <8836@star.cs.vu.nl> rvdp@cs.vu.nl (Ronald van der Pol) writes:
>>	The whole world is using '#!', so SCO decided to use ':' instead.
>Uhm... sorry.  ':' as the first character of a bourne-shell script is the
>*only* portable way to get to run under bourne shell.  And the whole world
>is *not* using '#!'.

It was my understanding also that '#!' worked only for BSD.  In BSD,
you can say '#!anything', not necessarily just shells (e.g. awk scripts
run great by saying '#!/bin/awk -f').

Now, the bonus question: is there an analogous directive for setting 
up a C shell script that will work in non-BSD systems ('#!/bin/csh' 
doesn't cut it in SVR3)?

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