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Re: Why sh-set-shell insert a space after #!


From: Andreas Schwab
Subject: Re: Why sh-set-shell insert a space after #!
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 10:05:51 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.1 (gnu/linux)

"Stephen J. Turnbull" <address@hidden> writes:

> IIRC, POSIX allows but doesn't require the space.  However, some
> historical mostly-compatible shells had problems if there was no
> space.

There is some background information in
<http://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/various/shebang/#blankrequired>.

Andreas.

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