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From: mascheck@in-ulm.de (Sven Mascheck)
Subject: [TUHS] History of #! interpretation in Unix
Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2011 16:05:24 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110130150524.GH26691@lisa.in-ulm.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.NEB.2.01.1101281335120.22444@t1.m.reedmedia.net>

Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> 
> Doing some related research, I noticed I had written in my notes (maybe 
> over a year ago) that Robert Elz added #! to BSD. Here is the email 
> message with the background:
> 
> http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-users/2008/11/10/msg002390.html

Thanks for digging that out. I was confused at first, because 4.0 BSD
implemented it without arguments, while the above article tells

"When I added it to BSD, I made a conscious decision to permit
 exactly one arg - not a general command line."

But the first regular occurence (active by default) in 4.2BSD
is implemented like that.

Do you feel like providing access to more of your research?



      reply	other threads:[~2011-01-30 15:05 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
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 [this message]

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