#!/usr/bin/nawk -f

Conor P. Cahill cpcahil at virtech.uucp
Thu May 30 09:54:49 AEST 1991


Albert.Langer at sunbrk.FidoNet.Org (Albert Langer) writes:

>I always assumed it was "standard unix" for an executable file with
>a first line as above to have "#!" recognized as a "magic number"
>that causes execve(2) when called by sh to execute a command, to

That is a BSDism that does not normally appear in system V systems until
SVR4.0.  However, ISC did add it in release 2.2, so if you upgrade you
will get what you want.
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