On 05 Feb 2011, at 17:09, Andreas Schwab wrote: > > Maarten Billemont <lhun...@gmail.com> writes: > >> 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. > > No, it isn't, it's passed as the argument. > > Andreas.
Of course, otherwise ./myscript < file wouldn't work.