sh and csh scripts (SCO ODT 1.0 with SCO Unix 3.2.1)

Sean Eric Fagan sef at kithrup.COM
Sat Jan 26 06:55:57 AEST 1991


In article <8836 at star.cs.vu.nl> rvdp at cs.vu.nl (Ronald van der Pol) writes:
>	The whole world is using '#!', so SCO decided to use ':' instead.

Uhm... sorry.  ':' as the first character of a bourne-shell script is the
*only* portable way to get to run under bourne shell.  And the whole world
is *not* using '#!'.

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