Forum: Cfengine Help Subject: Re: silly cfengine trick #! Author: zzamboni Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,19692,19699#msg-19699
A very nice trick indeed - although to be fully correct, Neil, it is the kernel who interprets the #!, the shell is not involved in this particular trick (although I agree with how powerful the shell is): On Unix-like operating systems, new image files are started by the "exec" family functions. This is where the operating system will detect that an image file is either a script or an executable binary. The presence of the shebang will result in the execution of the specified (usually script language) executable. This is described on the Solaris and Linux man page "execve". _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@cfengine.org https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
