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From: cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: #!/usr/bin/nawk -f
Message-ID: <1991May29.235449.20889@virtech.uucp>
Date: 29 May 91 23:54:49 GMT
References: <675432063.13@sunbrk.FidoNet>
Organization: Virtual Technologies Inc.
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Albert.Langer@sunbrk.FidoNet.Org (Albert Langer) writes:

>I always assumed it was "standard unix" for an executable file with
>a first line as above to have "#!" recognized as a "magic number"
>that causes execve(2) when called by sh to execute a command, to

That is a BSDism that does not normally appear in system V systems until
SVR4.0.  However, ISC did add it in release 2.2, so if you upgrade you
will get what you want.
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