#! in 4 bsd
mike%rice at sri-unix.UUCP
mike%rice at sri-unix.UUCP
Sat Mar 10 07:07:43 AEST 1984
From: Mike.Caplinger <mike at rice>
The #! feature was added to the Berkeley Unix system in 4.1; it was not
present in 4.0. The major motivation, I believe, was to allow Pascal
interpreter files to be execed directly without using the disgusting
hack of putting an executable interpreter front end on them. In fact,
this is a nice general solution to the problem of running files which
are interpreted by some other program. Cshell scripts are just a special
case of that.
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