Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site pur-phy.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!CS-Mordred!Pucc-H:Physics:crl From: crl@pur-phy.UUCP (Charles LaBrec) Newsgroups: net.unix,net.flame Subject: Re: Exec'able shell scripts Message-ID: <1234@pur-phy.UUCP> Date: Tue, 6-Mar-84 13:27:19 EST Article-I.D.: pur-phy.1234 Posted: Tue Mar 6 13:27:19 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 7-Mar-84 06:30:32 EST References: <1061@cwruecmp.UUCP> <184@opus.UUCP> Organization: Purdue University Physics Dept. Lines: 11 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 UUCP: pur-ee!Physics:crl, purdue!Physics:crl INTERNET: crl @ pur-phy.UUCP