On 05 Feb 2011, at 13:57, ali hagigat wrote: > > #!/bin/sh > echo ppppppp > echo $SHELL > exit 2200 > > In the above script i tried to specify /bin/sh as my parser by a > comment. Is that OK? When I type ./scr2 , i want bash recognize > /bin/sh as the parser of ./scr2. >
The comment is called a hashbang or shebang. It tells the kernel which program to start. Your script is passed over stdin to the interpreter. Note that on many system /bin/sh is a symlink to bash, so interpreting your code with /bin/sh would just start the bash interpreter in POSIXLY_CORRECT mode.
