Re: Bash-script – doesn't work in a launcher

[Johnny Rosenberg]

2011/12/31 Avi Greenbury <lists at avi.co>:
> 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?
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> Exactly. When you don't specify an interpreter to use, generally the
> current shell is used, which is probably bash.
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> 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.

That's very good to know. I thought it would recognise it wherever it
was, as long as nothing was done above it, but now I know better.
Thanks.


Kind regards

Johnny Rosenberg
ジョニー・ローゼンバーグ

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