From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: clemc@ccc.com (Clem Cole) Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2017 11:07:48 -0400 Subject: [TUHS] Etymology of shebang In-Reply-To: <040501d2baae$47bc8a20$d7359e60$@ronnatalie.com> References: <040501d2baae$47bc8a20$d7359e60$@ronnatalie.com> Message-ID: Sorry, yes -- which is why I think the exec hack first show up in the BSD kernel. It was an efficiency trick on the PDP-11's. The idea was to catch the change of shell as soon as possible. On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 10:48 AM, Ron Natalie wrote: > Oldest actual use in a post I can find is 1997 > > > > *I did find something I had completely forgot about. The csh used to > (probably still does?) differentiate between Bourne shell scripts and csh > scripts by looking for #.* > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: