Interesting to note that if the script starts with "#!", the login shell uses what follows as the command to run followed by the name of the file itself. The command does not have to be a shell.
Given a file called x:
The login shell will run:
Output:
Hi,
I am currently writing BASH shell scripts. I am using BASH on a Powerbook G4 running Leopard. Could somebody please explain the difference between
#!/bin/bash and #!/bin/sh?
I have been using the latter (#!/bin/sh), and things have been working fine. But is that the correct one to use... (9 Replies)
Do we need to include the exclamatory mark in the shebang line??:confused:
What if we dont include it??:eek:
Actually what shebang line implies when we run a script??
shebang line--> #!/bin/ksh :p (6 Replies)
Can any one tell me how to replace a shebang line of a file using sed?
Eg: If a file contains the following shebang line
#!C:/InstantRails/ruby/bin/ruby
I would like to replace it with
#!/usr/local/bin/ruby
The shebang line of the file can be obtained from the command
cat... (3 Replies)
*** EDIT: I found something close to my solution under an IIS 7 Module Handle.*****
(Non-Homework question, simply an ease of use one)
Odd question here and maybe its my newness to cgi/Perl, but is it possible to have 2 shebang lines?
I write an test a ton of my homework code on my windows... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I always thought that #!/usr/bin/ksh means that the script would be executed in korn shell i.e. when we'll execute the script with this line as the very first line then the shell spawns a korn shell (in this case as we are using #!/usr/bin/ksh ) and the script gets executed.
But I am... (7 Replies)
I see lot of ad-hoc shell scripts in our servers which don't have a shebang at the beginning .
Does this mean that it will run on any shell ?
Is it a good practice to create scripts (even ad-hoc ones) without shebang ? (16 Replies)
Hello All,
I was writing a Bash shell script that will be executed on both an AIX server (/usr/bin/ksh) and a SLES server (/bin/bash). The AIX server
has Bash installed at "/usr/bin/bash", which is in a different dir then the SLES server.
So basically I am writing the script on the SLES... (4 Replies)