Re: bash scripts and files

On Sun, Dec 30, 2007 at 05:17:43PM +0000, michael wrote:
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To: debian user <debian-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: bash scripts and files
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Folks, can somebody point me to an authorative reference that explains when one needs to put, eg,
#!/bin/bash
as the first line of a script and whether or not it's required/surplus/ignored for bash specific files such as .bashrc and .bash_profile
have look at:
http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/invoking.html
The whole tutorial is in the package: abs-guide

hth.
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Gérard