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[ale] help please getting script file to work
- Subject: [ale] help please getting script file to work
- From: mhw at WittsEnd.com (Michael H. Warfield)
- Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 13:09:30 -0500
- In-reply-to: <[email protected]>
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On Thu, 2012-02-16 at 12:51 -0500, mike at trausch.us wrote:
> On 02/16/2012 10:59 AM, Michael H. Warfield wrote:
> > mandatory unless you invoked the interpreter manually. That's still
> > true to this day but now the #! (which we always pronounced "hash-bang"
> > or "hash-pling" [SCO] - this is the first I have ever seen it referenced
> > as shebang) is interpreted at a much lower level in the OS. Including
> It's pretty common to refer to it as a shebang these days.
> I don't really know why.
Sounds like a contraction of hash-bang. Just drop the ha from the front
and you get sh-bang. Not too big of a step from there to shebang.
Typical language migration.
> --- Mike
Regards,
Mike
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