On Sep 24, 2015, at 12:20 PM, Tim Dawson <tadaw...@tpcsvc.com> wrote: > > The "#! <shell>" is a *nix thing that exists in every *nix I have ever seen, > for as long as I know (mid 1980's for me . . ) and is used to specify what > shell is to be loaded to run that script
More specifically, this dates back to when the first two bytes of an a.out-format executable file were the "magic" values used to determine how to load it. The ASCII code for "#!" does not match any of those magic values, and has the added benefit of being the start of a shell comment line. -- Charles Lepple clepple@gmail _______________________________________________ Nut-upsuser mailing list Nut-upsuser@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nut-upsuser
