I found some mailing list archives from 2000 mentioning #! but it was a mess and refered to things the readers of that list knew about but I don't. For example I couldn't figure out what XCUd3 ERN 6 is.
Could you point me to something more specific? Dan Kegel wrote: > Joseph Shraibman wrote: > >>I have been having problems making beanshell shell scripts on linux. >> >>Bascially #! /usr/local/jdk/bin/java bsh.Interpreter works, while >>#! /usr/local/jdk/bin/java -client bsh.Interpreter does not work. The problem seems >to be >>that all arguments are lumped together when passed to the program, so java doesn't >get two >>arguments '-client' and 'bsh.Interpreter', it gets one '-client bsh.Interpreter'. >Who is >>responsible for magic line interpretation, the shell that calls the script or the >kernel? >> Where is the spec for magic lines? >> > > It's a sad story. Search for #! in bodies at > http://www.opengroup.org/sophocles/show_archive.tpl?listname=austin-group-l > > - Dan > -- Joseph Shraibman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Increase signal to noise ratio. http://xis.xtenit.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
