Matej Cepl wrote:
Lorenzo Bettini wrote:OK, so the line "exec ..." can be used as an heuristic for detecting the actual scripting language, right?I have no idea why they use this construct (something similar is used in some perl scripts when they try to be cross-platform between Unix and Windows, which apparently can use exec line), but for example browser for
I was told that this was used to get around problems in older versions of shells.
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