On Thu, 3 Feb 2022 at 09:29, Seymour J Metz <[email protected]> wrote:
[shebang]
> The wiki article doesn't give the etymology, but I assume that it's an
> abbreviation of shell bang ("bang" in a Unixism for exclamation point.)
Almost certainly influenced by, though not related to in meaning, the
long preexistent (c. 1869) term shebang in the set phrase "the whole
shebang", meaning roughly "the whole thing", "everything".
>From Wiktionary: "The festival had balloons, flowers, fireworks,
performers, and the whole shebang."
Tony H.
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