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From: gwyn@brl-tgr.ARPA (Doug Gwyn <gwyn>)
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Subject: Re: Magic Numbers
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> Csh on non-4.2 systems checks for a # as
> the first character of the file, and forks itself if it sees it; if not, it
> forks a /bin/sh.

Yes, some of them do, but if they do that's a bug.
Virtually all of my Bourne shell scripts (including
SVR2 system utility scripts) start with "#".