Re: Should this be this way?

[Chet Ramey]

On 2/27/13 11:05 PM, Linda Walsh wrote:
> 
> 
> Greg Wooledge wrote:
>>> How often, when at a terminal, do you type #!/bin/bash before every line?
>>
>> When I've put the contents into a file?  Every. single. time.
> ---
> Then when I press 'v' to edit the command line in a text editor --
> maybe 'bash' should insert such a line?  It's converted your command line
> into an editable file.  But it hasn't put the #!/bin/bash at the front.

This is a bad example.  The file that is the result of the vi-mode `v'
command is run as if it were sourced with `.'.  It's not run as if it
were a shell script.



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