Re: sh-script.el and magic numbers

["Ehud Karni" <ehud@unix.mvs.co.il>]

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On Sat, 18 Jan 2003 21:24:03 -0600 (CST), Luc Teirlinck <teirllm@dms.auburn.edu> wrote:
> 
> As I mentioned in an earlier report, there seems to be quite some
> evidence that sh-script.el assumes, at several places and in several
> ways, that shell scripts start with a magic number (#! line), unless
> it is a special standard configuration file, obviously intended to be
> sourced, style .bashrc.  (The concrete definition being "matching
> `executable-magicless-file-regexp'".)  

The short answer is that the "#!" magic number should be a requirement.
You can use it in sourced files (both in sh/bash and csh/tcsh). It is
good programming practice to add it. Leave it as it is.

Ehud.


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