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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
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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.
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   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