From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: norman@oclsc.org (Norman Wilson)
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 18:57:39 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [TUHS] Command line post-arguments with #!
Message-ID: <20111214235740.04D421DE369@lignose.oclsc.org>

Sven Mascheck:

  Well the original implementation (post 7th ed and 4.0/4.1 BSD)
  didn't allow arguments at all ;-)

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I believe you're mistaken.  All the implementations I've
ever used allowed a single argument in the #! line,
and inserted the name of the script between that (if
present) and the arguments given to exec.

e.g. if ./lipsum began with

	#!/usr/bin/awk -f

awk would be invoked with `/usr/bin/awk -f ./lipsum ...'.

Without allowing one argument for -f or the like,
#! wouldn't have been useful for much but the shell.

Norman Wilson
Toronto ON