Bug in #! processing

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On Thu, 2004-09-30 at 09:16, Sławek Żak wrote:
> "David G. Lawrence" <dg at dglawrence.com> writes:
> >    The #! is required to be in the first two bytes of the file, so there
> > can't be any spaces before it.
> 
>     Oh. Thus in following script:
> 
> thirst<zaks>(1950)% cat tst.sh
>     #!/bin/no-such-file
> ps -lp $$

exec*() fails in that case, and shells assume it's a sh script.  csh
(used to?) assume a csh script if the first character is #, or you can
use "alias shell" to tell it which shell to assume.  This is how scripts
worked before #!.

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