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From: mike%rice@sri-unix.UUCP
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Subject: Re: #! in 4 bsd
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Date: Fri, 9-Mar-84 16:07:43 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar  9 16:07:43 1984
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From:  Mike.Caplinger 

The #! feature was added to the Berkeley Unix system in 4.1; it was not
present in 4.0.  The major motivation, I believe, was to allow Pascal
interpreter files to be execed directly without using the disgusting
hack of putting an executable interpreter front end on them.  In fact,
this is a nice general solution to the problem of running files which
are interpreted by some other program.  Cshell scripts are just a special
case of that.