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From: nick@ccicpg.UUCP (Nick Crossley)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: make importing SHELL
Summary: #! does not replace SHELL
Message-ID: <27452@ccicpg.UUCP>
Date: 30 Sep 88 23:35:27 GMT
References: <452@alice.marlow.uucp> <67870@sun.uucp> <67925@sun.uucp> <128@cetia.UUCP> <13753@mimsy.UUCP> <4147@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Reply-To: nick@ccicpg.UUCP (Nick Crossley)
Organization: CCI CPG, Irvine CA
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In article <4147@bsu-cs.UUCP> dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) writes:
>I think the problem is that $SHELL exists at all.  It's a poor
>substitute for the #! in 4.3BSD.
>-- 
>Rahul Dhesi         UUCP:  <backbones>!{iuvax,pur-ee}!bsu-cs!dhesi

It is not only used for scripts, but also for deciding which shell is used
to process ! commands from vi and other such tools.  It is not easy to see
how to extend #! to these facilities.
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