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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting shell magic number with a - Post 77444 by blowtorch on Friday 8th of July 2005 10:45:10 AM
Old 07-08-2005
To answer the first question, this is to disable the option processing by sh. This means that if you pass any arguments to the script, sh will not try to interpret them itself, but will treat them as arguments.

To quote the BSD sh manual,
Quote:
Originally Posted by BSD sh manual
A ``--'' or plain ``-'' will stop option processing and will
force the remaining words on the command line to be treated as arguments.
In the case of your second question, the script does not run as './unix.run' because you are trying to 'execute' a file that is not executable (no x bits are set). With 'sh ./unix.run' the binary '/usr/bin/sh' is executed and the unix.run script is passed to it as arguments.

Cheers!

P.S. BTW, the magic number only comprises the first 2 or 3 (both are legal) bytes in the file. The rest of the line tells the kernel what is to be used to interpret the rest of the file.

Last edited by blowtorch; 07-08-2005 at 11:47 AM.. Reason: an aside about the magic number
 

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