#!/usr/bin/python or #!/usr/bin/env python?
Tobias Brox
tobias at stud.cs.uit.no
Wed Aug 9 04:47:00 EDT 2006
[Erik Max Francis
> How does that make sense? `file` cannot possibly understand the
> semantics of files at that level, at least not without executing them.
> And that's exactly what you _don't_ want to do when you're using `file` ...
This is very off-topic, but if it's fairly common to begin tcl-scripts
as a /bin/sh-file with "exec tcl" at one of the first lines, I think
"file" ought to be able to recognize it.
"""exec" python is clearly an obscure hack not used by many, so I
don't see why "file" should ever recognize that :-)
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