What is the Purpose of the Shebang
- Jkhart
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This is a more general question that I cannot find an answer too. If the Shebang is commented out, why is it so important that files have the same Shebang?
- William
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The wikipedia article on this is an interesting read. Essentially the answer is:
"Because the "#" character is often used as the comment marker in scripting languages, the contents of the shebang line will be automatically ignored by the interpreter itself; the shebang line only exists to specify the correct interpreter to be used."
"Because the "#" character is often used as the comment marker in scripting languages, the contents of the shebang line will be automatically ignored by the interpreter itself; the shebang line only exists to specify the correct interpreter to be used."