the #! notation

[Wm E. Davidsen Jr]

In article <1991Jan16.162705.580 at cid.aes.doe.CA> afsipmh at cidsv01.cid.aes.doe.CA () writes:
| 
|  Could someone clear up something for me?
|  - If i put #! /bin/csh on the first line of a script

  This is normally done by the kernel (if at all). It seems to me
there's a mechanism in SysV which put a line like

	: uses /bin/csh

as the first line, but I can't remember where I saw it. At any rate the
#! notation went into V.4, so it's now official.
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