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Re: Fix for script magic.
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Alexandre Oliva |
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Re: Fix for script magic. |
Date: |
01 Nov 2000 23:11:40 -0200 |
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On Nov 1, 2000, François Pinard <address@hidden> wrote:
> [Pavel Roskin]
>> >From Autoconf documentation:
>> --------------------
>> If you omit the space before the path, then 4.2BSD based systems
>> (such as Sequent DYNIX) will ignore the line, because they interpret
>> `#! /' as a 4-byte magic number.
>> --------------------
> Let's remove that comment, as well as all those useless spaces.
They're not *totally* useless. The problem, IIRC, was that `file'
would only recognize shell scripts when they had the space in.
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