Re: OT: coloured text?
On Sun, Jan 07, 2024 at 07:12:38PM +0000, Michael Kjörling wrote:
> On 7 Jan 2024 14:03 -0500, from greg@wooledge.org (Greg Wooledge):
> > The shebang tells the kernel which shell to execute to interpret your
> > script. So, you match it up to whichever shell you're writing for.
>
> Or perhaps rather which interpreter to use to execute the file.
"Interpreter" is the traditional word for the program executed by the
kernel, yes.
> Examples of shebang lines which aren't for "shells" in the traditional
> sense might be:
>
> #!/usr/sbin/nft -f
>
> #!/usr/bin/env python3
>
> #!/usr/bin/perl
Python and perl are both scripting languages. I don't know what nft is.
> or if you are feeling evil... :-)
>
> #!/bin/sed -e 1d
This is not a valid shebang. You're only permitted ONE argument after
the interpreter name. You're going to execute /bin/sed '-e 1d' 'filename'
with this.
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