Re: bash scripts and files

[Gerard Robin <g.robin3@free.fr>]

On Sun, Dec 30, 2007 at 05:17:43PM +0000, michael wrote:
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> Subject: bash scripts and files
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> Folks, can somebody point me to an authorative reference that explains when 
> one needs to put, eg,
>  #!/bin/bash
> as the first line of a script and whether or not it's 
> required/surplus/ignored for bash specific files such as .bashrc and 
> .bash_profile
have look at:
http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/invoking.html
The whole tutorial is in the package: abs-guide

hth.
--
Gérard