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From: ok@quintus.UUCP (Richard A. O'Keefe)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: White space Was - Re: BSD sh vs. System V sh
Keywords: What's the one LIKE that, but with regular veins that go right out..
Message-ID: <1000@quintus.UUCP>
Date: 15 Apr 89 08:36:10 GMT
References: <1005@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu> <16838@mimsy.UUCP> <1744@leah.Albany.Edu> <1435@auspex.auspex.com>
Reply-To: ok@quintus.UUCP (Richard A. O'Keefe)
Organization: Quintus Computer Systems, Inc.
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In article <1435@auspex.auspex.com> guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) writes:
>>Is there a difference between ``#! /bin/sh'' and ``#!/bin/sh''?
>
>Not on a system that does "#!" properly

In some versions of UNIX you have a 32-character limit on the interpreter
comment, which is rather kathedralgic.  With so few characters available,
why waste one of them on a non-informative space?  For /bin/sh, no
problem, but when the program you really want is /usr/local/oursite/bin/sc2.6
you want all the help you can get.  Has that limit gone in 4.3BSD?  If not,
will it go in 4.4?  What about V.4?