Shell Script question

Wm E. Davidsen Jr davidsen at sixhub.UUCP
Sun Mar 25 10:00:01 AEST 1990


In article <1990Mar21.170124.1365 at holos0.uucp> lbr at holos0.UUCP (Len Reed) writes:

| For some stupid reason SCO never incorporated this convention into either
| their csh or Bourne shell.  It would be nice to tag awk, perl, sed, etc.
| scripts this way.

  I seem to recall that this is in the kernel, a fair reason for not
adding it to a shell. I thought that there was a convention that looked
something like
	:uses /bin/awk
at the start of a script which WAS recognized, but I can't get it to
work now, so I may be dreaming.
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