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Shebang (Unix)

In computing, a shebang is the character sequence #!, consisting of the characters number sign (also known as sharp or hash) and exclamation mark (also known as bang), at the beginning of a script. It is also called sharp-exclamation, sha-bang, hashbang, pound-bang, or hash-pling.

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Shebang (Unix)

Nodes74
Edges73
Triples1
Avg. degree1.97
Density0.027027
Components1

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Important terminology

interpreter script shebang file bin line path scripts env shell systems sh executable also program system example used usr may

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Solaris have the POSIX-compatible shell at /usr/xpg4/bin/shinstance ofbut some systems0.80text

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