On Mon, 2010-07-19 at 09:02 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: > > A shebang is one of those bits at the start of a script that looks like > > this: > > > > #!/bin/bash > > > > which tells the system what shell the script is supposed to be run with. > > The shebang is the #! part. The # is the 'she', the ! is the 'bang'. > > I believe it's "shabang", with the "#" being the musical notation for > "sharp". Some other names for it are "hash" and Americans sometime > call it a "pound sign" (yes, I'm an American). Wikipedia doesn't list shabang as a current usage - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shebang_%28Unix%29 - but refers to it historically, though I'd never seen that before. It wouldn't be called just 'hash', either - it'd be 'hashbang'. ('Hash' is a British English term for the character # alone, hence hashbang for #!). Google Fight? 708,000 for 'shebang', 127,000 for 'shabang'. :) Although it seems most of those results refer to the non-techy meaning(s) of the word(s). -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
