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From: cowan@mercury.ccil.org (John Cowan)
Subject: [TUHS] History of #! interpretation in Unix
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 15:51:28 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110117205128.GI2461@mercury.ccil.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.NEB.2.01.1101171232320.22444@t1.m.reedmedia.net>

Jeremy C. Reed scripsit:

> This seems to indicate the idea was not developed separately at 
> Berkeley.

Thanks for doing the digging.  What this shows is that dmr came up with
the idea of putting shebang processing into the kernel, but it does not
show where shebangs as a shell feature came from.  I still think that
has to be the CSRG.

> It was introduced into BSD by April 1981. For 2BSD (2.8) it was added by 
> Dec. 16, 1981 when built with MENLO_SCRIPT defined (but I don't see that 
> documented or defined).

Thanks again for clarifying the ordering here: I had assumed that 2.8
was older than 4.0.

--
We call nothing profound                        cowan at ccil.org
that is not wittily expressed.                  John Cowan
        --Northrop Frye (improved)



  reply	other threads:[~2011-01-17 20:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-16  8:43 Warren Toomey
2011-01-16  9:55 ` John Cowan
2011-01-16 13:20   ` Sven Mascheck
2011-01-16 17:17     ` John Cowan
2011-01-16 19:19       ` Sven Mascheck
2011-01-16 20:17         ` John Cowan
2011-01-16 20:42           ` Larry McVoy
2011-01-16 21:08           ` Sven Mascheck
2011-01-16 21:37             ` John Cowan
2011-01-17 16:35               ` Warner Losh
2011-01-17 20:47                 ` John Cowan
2011-01-17 10:09           ` Tim Bradshaw
2011-01-16 10:53 ` Wilko Bulte
2011-01-17 16:25   ` Warner Losh
2011-01-17 19:02 ` Jeremy C. Reed
2011-01-17 20:51   ` John Cowan [this message]
2011-01-17 22:41     ` Jeremy C. Reed
2011-01-17 20:58   ` Sven Mascheck
2011-01-19  4:10   ` Cyrille Lefevre
2011-01-19 20:35     ` Sven Mascheck
2011-01-20  4:09       ` Cyrille Lefevre
2011-01-28 19:38   ` Jeremy C. Reed
2011-01-30 15:05     ` Sven Mascheck

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