[ale] help please getting script file to work

Michael H. Warfield mhw at WittsEnd.com
Thu Feb 16 13:09:30 EST 2012


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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