[ILUG] shebang line curiosity

Kevin O' Riordan kor at compsoc.com
Mon Dec 2 09:45:04 GMT 2002


> > it, but if anyone can see why this behaviour is occurring, or even how
> > to get the desired behaviour, then I'd be thrilled.
> 
> the desired behavior would be what?  what are you trying to do?

I was trying to get behaviour like:

    #!/bin/sh
    /home/kor/bin/somefilter.sh <<EOT
    some random text
    that will be filtered some
    way
    EOT

But without using sh as the interpreter, like so:

    #!/home/kor/bin/somefilter.sh
    some random text
    that will be filtered some
    way

I thought that would work, but it doesn't - the text gets interpreted by
the interpreter on the shebang line of somefilter.sh, instead of being
interpreted (filtered) by somefilter.sh.

It's just a curiosity, but I can't figure out why it doesn't work.

blarg
-kev

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