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From: tjo@Fulcrum.BT.CO.UK (Tim Oldham)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: #! /bin/sh line in a shell script
Message-ID: <82@cat.Fulcrum.BT.CO.UK>
Date: 8 Feb 89 18:01:35 GMT
References: <8575@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> <382@greens.UUCP>
Reply-To: tjo@cat.UUCP (Tim Oldham)
Organization: BT Fulcrum, Birmingham, England
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In article <382@greens.UUCP> matthew@sunpix.UUCP ( Sun NCAA) writes:
>In article <8575@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU>, ghe@nucthy.physics.orst.edu (Guangliang He) writes:
>> I have seen number of times that a shell script file begining with a line
>> #! /bin/sh. What does that mean? 
>
>    [matthew explains about kernel handling of #! ]

This isn't valid for all kernels ie versions and flavours of Unix. There's a
problem here; some flavours use #! and some assume your $SHELL, unless the
first line is blank, in which case they use /bin/sh. Such is my limited
experience, anyway.

	-> Tim
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