[TUHS] History of #! interpretation in Unix
Sven Mascheck
mascheck at in-ulm.de
Thu Jan 20 06:35:06 AEST 2011
Cyrille Lefevre wrote:
> yet another reference but more in the spirit of what csh does, it only
> checks for a simple hash (#), no explaim mark (!), and is enclosed in
> UCB_SCRIPT define.
>
> http://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=2.9BSD/usr/src/sys/sys/sys1.c
Perhaps you missed the ! in the macro?
#define SCRMAG '#!'
> 2.11 BSD seems to have an enhanced version of this feature in the sense
> where the shell path may be followed by some arguments (i.e.: /bin/sh -x)
Yes, #! originally had not implemented arguments at all (this even applies
to 386BSD). Arguments ("all in one") came with 4.2BSD and later, variations
appeared like splitting up into argv[] or delivering only the "first" argument.
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