Posted by: Anonymous
[ip: 207.14.167.161]
on July 12, 2008 06:37 PM
I think starting a script with #! establishes a magic number-see 'man magic'.
I learned this long ago when I asked an old-timer: when you tell your shell to execute a file,
how does it know if it's compiled or a script? I think this is the same mechanism
that is used by the 'file' command.
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Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 207.14.167.161] on July 12, 2008 06:37 PMI learned this long ago when I asked an old-timer: when you tell your shell to execute a file,
how does it know if it's compiled or a script? I think this is the same mechanism
that is used by the 'file' command.
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