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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Adding text to the first line of a shell script Post 302983741 by Don Cragun on Saturday 15th of October 2016 08:31:06 PM
Old 10-15-2016
I have no desire to help you write non-portable code that can't be read and understood without reformatting it, but...
Some systems will allow a single argument on the #!shell to be passed to shell when it is run. Some systems will pass more arguments to shell.

Some systems might perform quote removal arguments processed on a #!shell line; most will not. (After all, the kernel evaluating a #!shell line it finds in a file it is exec'ing is not a shell.)

If you happen to be using a system that performs quote removal and allows at least two arguments to be passed to a shell named in a #!shell line, you might get what you want with:
Code:
#!/bin/sh -c "whatever command you want to run; and another command; etc..."

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platform::shell

platform::shell(n)					       Tcl Bundled Packages						platform::shell(n)

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

NAME

       platform::shell - System identification support code and utilities

SYNOPSIS

       package require platform::shell ?1.1.4?

       platform::shell::generic shell
       platform::shell::identify shell
       platform::shell::platform shell
_________________________________________________________________

DESCRIPTION

       The platform::shell package provides several utility commands useful for the identification of the architecture of a specific Tcl shell.

       This  package  allows the identification of the architecture of a specific Tcl shell different from the shell running the package. The only
       requirement is that the other shell (identified by its path), is actually executable on the current machine.

       While for most platform this means that the architecture of the interrogated shell is identical to the architecture of  the  running  shell
       this  is  not generally true. A counter example are all platforms which have 32 and 64 bit variants and where a 64bit system is able to run
       32bit code. For these running and interrogated shell may have different 32/64 bit settings and thus different identifiers.

       For applications like a code repository it is important to identify the architecture of the shell which will  actually  run  the  installed
       packages, versus the architecture of the shell running the repository software.

COMMANDS

       platform::shell::identify shell
	      This command does the same identification as platform::identify, for the specified Tcl shell, in contrast to the running shell.

       platform::shell::generic shell
	      This command does the same identification as platform::generic, for the specified Tcl shell, in contrast to the running shell.

       platform::shell::platform shell
	      This command returns the contents of tcl_platform(platform) for the specified Tcl shell.

KEYWORDS

       operating system, cpu architecture, platform, architecture

platform::shell 						       1.1.4							platform::shell(n)
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