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Luc Teirlinck wrote:

> Can we just assume that people NEVER use (or never should use)
> shell-scripts without a #!-line?

Some shell scripts are meant to be sourced, not executed, and therefore
don't need (and shouldn't have, IMO) the #! line. The obvious ones are
profile files, such as ~/.bashrc, etc.