On Tue, Nov 21, 2006 at 11:32:23PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Mon, 2006-11-20 at 00:04 +0100, Florent Rougon wrote: > <anip> > [Re space between shebang and the interpreter path] > > - I was told it is more portable (I once looked for confirmation with > > a little Google search but that was a while ago and I forgot the > > exact reasons that were mentioned). > <snip> > > The requirement for "#! /" was documented in 4.1BSD but the > implementation never really required it - compare > http://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/various/shebang/exec.2.html and > http://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/various/shebang/sys1.c.html > > (Found via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shebang_(Unix) )
Hmm... interesting. Please read full story The '#!'-magic, details about the shebang mechanism on various Unix flavours at http://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/various/shebang/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
