On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 3:57 PM, Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On a Linux system (and I presume on other Unixes), the kernel > itself (if built with the proper options) knows know how start > a "script" file that starts with the characters "#!". When the > kernel is told to execute a file whose first two bytes are "#!" > (0x32,0x21), it knows to read the newline terminated path of an > executable starting at the byte following the "!" (the third > byte in the file). The kernel then executes that file, > appending the name of the original "script" file to the argv > list. Wow, thanks for the history lesson. I was under the impression that this was a bash thing, I had no idea it went as deep as the kernel!
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