What does that first line in a script do?

In bash scripts there's a #bash... line at the start. What does that
tell bash to do?

Eric.

On 5/26/05, Chris Kastorff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have found a better way (better than curl, kill) during my work
> with Perl. No killing, one cron job. The script linked to must be set
> +x (chmod +x file), and the first line should be set to #!/path/to/
> perl (which may be /usr/local/bin/perl or /usr/bin/perl or some other
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