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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
Cc: Leo <sdl.web@gmail.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Why sh-set-shell insert a space after #!
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 10:05:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2boia54f4.fsf@igel.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y5levvf4.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (Stephen J. Turnbull's message of "Fri, 17 Aug 2012 16:18:07 +0900")

"Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org> writes:

> IIRC, POSIX allows but doesn't require the space.  However, some
> historical mostly-compatible shells had problems if there was no
> space.

There is some background information in
<http://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/various/shebang/#blankrequired>.

Andreas.

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-08-17  8:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-17  4:05 Why sh-set-shell insert a space after #! Leo
2012-08-17  5:22 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2012-08-17  6:54   ` Leo
2012-08-17  7:06     ` Leo
2012-08-22 17:17       ` Bastien
2012-08-23  0:53         ` Leo
2012-08-23  9:54           ` Bastien
2012-08-24 17:08   ` Aurélien Aptel
2012-08-17  7:18 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-08-17  8:05   ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2012-08-17 15:50   ` Leo
2012-08-17 16:37     ` Thierry Volpiatto

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