Carsten Haese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> (3) assumes that whatever shell the user is running looks up the shebang
> executable in the path, which bash, just to name one example, does not
> do.
For the record, on a modern Unix system, #! isn't handled by the
shell; it's handled by the kernel. #! is a "magic number" denoting a
type of executable. Some shells used to do that, and may still do that
if the underlying system doesn't handle it.
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