using #! and a different shell

Neil Rickert rickert at mp.cs.niu.edu
Fri Feb 22 09:50:39 AEST 1991


In article <17438:Feb2121:00:5691 at kramden.acf.nyu.edu> brnstnd at kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) writes:

>1. Your subject line is nearly useless. ``Using #!'' is too general, and
>``a different shell'' is irrelevant. Much better would be

 Break it up.  Break it up.

 The question may have been poorly phrased, and should have been in
comp.unix.questions.  But it is quite understandable nevertheless.  Your
intemperate answer was uncalled for.  Besides you could have given the answer
with less than 10% of the effort you put into your reply -- even if it were no
more than the man pages reference you hid amidst you verbiage.

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