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From: jde@everex.UUCP (-Jeff Ellis)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Executing a script with a specific shell.
Message-ID: <458@everex.UUCP>
Date: 4 Jan 90 19:20:41 GMT
References: <1483@lakesys.lakesys.com> <1989Dec30.122215.2199@virtech.uucp>
Reply-To: jde@everex.UUCP (-Jeff Ellis)
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Organization: ESIX System V, Santa Ana, CA, USA
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In article <1989Dec30.122215.2199@virtech.uucp> cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill) writes:
>Place a:
>	#!/bin/sh
>as the first line of the shell file.  This always works under BSD unix and
>if your primary shell is the csh it will work under system V.

Well is the AT&T SYSV.3.2 systems I have tried that will NOT work.
As per the manual it says that when using csh if the first char in the first
line of a script file is a "#" then csh thinks it will be a csh script.
If this is not true it will invoke sh to run the script. If sh is your
shell then the "#" is treated as a comment. I know I have had to change
a number of files that come with ESIX System V that followed the BSD style
to get them to work under C-Shell......

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