Re: Can't get scripts to work

[Pollywog <pollywog@shadypond.com>]

On 06-Jan-2000 Dave Sherohman wrote:
> Wayne Topa said:
>> All of these worked :  #!/bin/sh, # !/bin/sh, #! /bin/sh and
>> the script even worked _without_ any #! line _at all_!!!   I have no
>> idea why it worked, but it does?????
> 
> I suspect that it's because you're running it from bash, so bash gets to
> interpret it if nobody else is specified, just like if you'd typed it in
> from
> the command line.

That is exactly it.  I remember reading that somewhere.  If the interpreter is
not specified, bash is assumed.  That explained why when I was new to this
stuff, my bash scripts worked even when I left out '#!/bin/sh'

--
Andrew