mstombs
Very Senior Member
You learn something new every day
Never heard of the "shebang" being called "hash-pling" or "pound-bang" but wikipedia has!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shebang_(Unix)
I guess shebang is the British form, # is the "hash" symbol "lb" or "£" is pound!, and "!" is referred to as 'bang' in school mathematics meaning factorial.
By the way you can often get away without this line in scripts, since shell script is often a default - incorrect, wrong architecture binaries often return obscure script errors. You definitely need it it you want to invoke a specific interpreter bash, dash or perl etc on linux PC so very good practise to always include.
Never heard of the "shebang" being called "hash-pling" or "pound-bang" but wikipedia has!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shebang_(Unix)
I guess shebang is the British form, # is the "hash" symbol "lb" or "£" is pound!, and "!" is referred to as 'bang' in school mathematics meaning factorial.
By the way you can often get away without this line in scripts, since shell script is often a default - incorrect, wrong architecture binaries often return obscure script errors. You definitely need it it you want to invoke a specific interpreter bash, dash or perl etc on linux PC so very good practise to always include.