Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2003 07:32:04 GMT
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Subject: Subject: #! bash bug - oops - sorry.
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To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com

this is very wrong - i was up to long dealing with a problem
related to this - and i had no business thinking ...
or doing email.

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1.  note that all references you provided, and 20 others i've read, state:
    script starting with a line of the form "#! interpreter [arg]".

    emphasis on "starting" - it does not say that there must (or should),
    not be any more to the line before the end of the line.  it could've
    been written to say:

    "script containing a line of the form ..." or
    "script consisting of a line of the form ..." or
    "script with a line of the form ...", etc.

    but it wasn't written that way.  all man pages say "starting" ...
    i don't think the word was used frivolously, i think it was used
    intentionally, for a reason.