Linux #! incompatibility?

[Greg Louis]

On 20021204 (Wed) at 1456:16 -0600, Graham Wilson wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 01:30:40PM -0500, David Relson wrote:
> > I thought the "#!" interpretation done in the shell.  Now I know that
> > it's the kernel that interprets the pound-bang of an executable.
> > Interesting :-)
> 
> i think some shells/interpreters might parse that line themseleves,
> though none come to mind right now.
> 
> just fyi, the scientific term is "shebang". :-)
> 

I've seen:
  shebang
  shabang
  sh'bang (apparently intended to suggest the indiscriminate vowel ;)
  hashbang
  octothorpe-exclamation-mark :)

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