On 2/27/13 11:05 PM, Linda Walsh wrote: > > > Greg Wooledge wrote: >>> How often, when at a terminal, do you type #!/bin/bash before every line? >> >> When I've put the contents into a file? Every. single. time. > --- > Then when I press 'v' to edit the command line in a text editor -- > maybe 'bash' should insert such a line? It's converted your command line > into an editable file. But it hasn't put the #!/bin/bash at the front.
This is a bad example. The file that is the result of the vi-mode `v' command is run as if it were sourced with `.'. It's not run as if it were a shell script. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/