you are so right! we do use sccs. I first thought it's a in-house thing, didn't know it's a oddie-goodie.
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 8:42 PM, Tony Cratz <[email protected]> wrote: > Hai Yi wrote: >> I thought so too. But it's what's the first line in the script. It's >> running on Sun OS 4. >> >> >>> Hai Yi wrote: >>> >>>> #ident "%W%" >>>> >>> >>> Should that really be? >>> >>> #!/bin/sh >>> ident "%W%" > > > I just did a refresh of my some of my early programming days. > The "%W%" is an SCCS keyword. For more info on it look at: > http://www.gmtel.net/web/drittmer/Technical/SCCS_Keywords.pdf > > SCCS is an OLD version control system. > > But with that said. To make sure your script works in a Linux > environment make the first line: > > #!/bin/sh > > The SCCS info should NEVER have been on the first line. While a > line which starts with '#' is a comment it was NEVER a good way > to make the scripts where it would work on multi-systems. The > old way we use to do this was have the first line on a true > Borune Shell system as: > > : > # above line is a comment > > Latter the standard turned into being the normal '#!/bin/sh' > > > Tony > _______________________________________________ > vox-tech mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech > _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
