On 2/27/13 11:05 PM, Linda Walsh wrote:
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> Greg Wooledge wrote:
>>> How often, when at a terminal, do you type #!/bin/bash before every line?
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>> When I've put the contents into a file? Every. single. time.
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> 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.
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