suggestions: for bash shell: "shebam's and shebang's"

2017-01-11 Thread Bill William
Sorry about restating the obvious... but...everybody dislikes binary file header "bom's" like utf=8, utf-16 etc..too little...too late... instead, why not force everybody to build those file types into the shebang instead? The problem with the shebang is that its not a file type its an executable

Re: suggestions: for bash shell: "shebam's and shebang's"

2017-01-11 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 01:30:02PM -0500, Bill William wrote: > The problem with the shebang is that its not a file type its an > executable...what is needed is the option to only specify a file type... > examples: > > //Example Shebang: #!/usr/bin/perl > //Example Shebam:#:utf8 > //

Re: suggestions: for bash shell: "shebam's and shebang's"

2017-01-11 Thread L A Walsh
Greg Wooledge wrote: On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 01:30:02PM -0500, Bill William wrote: The problem with the shebang is that its not a file type its an executable...what is needed is the option to only specify a file type... examples: //Example Shebang: #!/usr/bin/perl //Example Shebam: