On Monday, July 19, 2010, 12:45:30 PM, Adam wrote: > 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 #!). The # is an invented character that originated at AT&T for touch tone dialing. The official name is "octothorpe" - Greek for "8 points"... but no one ever calls it that. I think it got called "pound sign" because it was placed on keyboards where typewriters used to place the British Pound Sterling symbol. Also see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_sign Daddy... what's a typewriter? Lord, do I feed old all of a sudden. Al > 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 -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
