Rich Healey wrote:
LOL, Damned if I know. Goes back to a time when gods walked the halls of AT&T I think. I am thinking of people who did not like the new fangled "text" editor because "I do not like to see the state of the file while I am editing it". Quote is from "*Go to: The Story of the Math Majors, Bridge Players, Engineers, Chess Wizards, Scientists and Iconoclasts who were the Hero Programmers of the Software Revolution" *by Steve Lohr. That was the response of one of the Unix/Sun founders when he was shown emm (Editor for Mere Mortals) and his response is why it was named Emm or so the author claims. Forwarding this back to the list, maybe someone knows?-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Damon L. Chesser wrote:Dylan Garrett wrote:On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 4:43 PM, Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir@cohens.org.il <mailto:tzafrir@cohens.org.il>> wrote: On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 02:05:23PM -0400, Dylan Garrett wrote: > One issue that I see that you should fix (though it won't affect your > results): > #bin/bash! > Should be: > #!/usr/bin/bash /usr/bin/bash? where? /bin/bash > Or better yet: > #!/usr/bin/env bash Or simpler: #!/bin/sh -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzafrir@jabber.org <mailto:tzafrir@jabber.org> | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt'stzafrir@cohens.org.il <mailto:tzafrir@cohens.org.il> | | bestICQ# 16849754 | | friend Oh, duh. Of course bash isn't in /usr/bin. I guess I forgot my linux for a second. :P Thanks for fixing my mistake. And sorry to Damon.Hey, I am the guy, after seen this for YEARS wrote #bin/bash! ! If I would have taken a second to SAY it (sha-bang) I would have realized it. No apologies needed.I'm still not sure why they're called sha-bangs.. am i missing something really blatant? Dammit ten years using unix and this is the thing i don't get.. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIDRQNLeTfO4yBSAcRApICAJ9WKpSJO4/PF2OUqKcRMRbwkDsVxACeKgVK VN96rAX0N62VVgAz9dYdKHY= =lD3k -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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