Bash-script – doesn't work in a launcher

[Avi Greenbury]

Johnny Rosenberg wrote:
> Still I wonder why it worked with the #!/bin/bash line not at the top
> when I ran it from a terminal, should it really…? Maybe because bash
> is default in a terminal?

Exactly. When you don't specify an interpreter to use, generally the
current shell is used, which is probably bash.

A line beginning #! anywhere other than the top of the script is simply
a comment; there's nothing parsing it to work out what to do.


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Avi