Executing a script with a specific shell.

Conor P. Cahill cpcahil at virtech.uucp
Sat Dec 30 23:22:15 AEST 1989


In article <1483 at lakesys.lakesys.com>, johnb at lakesys.lakesys.com (John C. Burant) writes:
> I'm using csh as my reular shell, and I need a file to be executed by sh,
> not csh, and this is not a regular script that would automatically be 
> executed with sh by typing its name - it's run with csh.  


Place a:

	#!/bin/sh

as the first line of the shell file.  This always works under BSD unix and
if your primary shell is the csh it will work under system V.
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