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From: crl@pur-phy.UUCP (Charles LaBrec)
Newsgroups: net.unix,net.flame
Subject: Re: Exec'able shell scripts
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Date: Tue, 6-Mar-84 13:27:19 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar  6 13:27:19 1984
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Personally, I like very much the '#!' construction because it allows
you to have set-[gu]id shell scripts.  2.8 BSD even allows you to
have execute-only (i.e., non-readable) scripts.  The 4.x implementation
lets you give flags, e.g. csh -f, so csh scripts can start up reasonably
fast.  True, error messages could be better, but I would protest any
idea to scrap these facilities.

Charles LaBrec
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