#! shells (was: Re: AIX (is it unix)?)

Maarten Litmaath maart at cs.vu.nl
Tue Sep 26 02:48:35 AEST 1989


guy at auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) writes:
\... "#!" (to handle the 3 shells - Bourne, C, and Korn - [...]

You forgot to important `shells':

	#!/bin/sed -f
	#!/bin/awk -f
:-)

Can you figure out why I don't want sed's `#n' hack to be limited to the first
line of the script only?
What I REALLY want, of course, is to get rid of that (understandable but)
stupid 32-characters-and-1-option `#!' limitation.
-- 
   creat(2) shouldn't have been create(2): |Maarten Litmaath @ VU Amsterdam:
      it shouldn't have existed at all.    |maart at cs.vu.nl, mcvax!botter!maart



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