Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!ginosko!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!star.cs.vu.nl!maart From: maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: #! shells (was: Re: AIX (is it unix)?) Message-ID: <3367@fireball.cs.vu.nl> Date: 25 Sep 89 16:48:35 GMT References: <1702@naucse.UUCP><978@mtxinu.UUCP> <868@cirrusl.UUCP> <2486@auspex.auspex.com> Organization: V.U. Informatica, Amsterdam, the Netherlands Lines: 16 guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) writes: \... "#!" (to handle the 3 shells - Bourne, C, and Korn - [...] You forgot to important `shells': #!/bin/sed -f #!/bin/awk -f :-) Can you figure out why I don't want sed's `#n' hack to be limited to the first line of the script only? What I REALLY want, of course, is to get rid of that (understandable but) stupid 32-characters-and-1-option `#!' limitation. -- creat(2) shouldn't have been create(2): |Maarten Litmaath @ VU Amsterdam: it shouldn't have existed at all. |maart@cs.vu.nl, mcvax!botter!maart