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Xah Lee <xahlee@gmail.com> writes:

Hi Xah,

> from my experiences, it's best to avoid the shebang construct. Just
> call the program directly.

Yes, that's absolutely the best thing to do for scripts that should run
on many systems on different platforms. ;-)

Bye,
Tassilo