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Shebang : (noun)
1: an entire system; used in the phrase `the whole shebang'
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Shebang : \She*bang"\, n. [Cf. Shebeen.]
A jocosely depreciative name for a dwelling or shop.
[Slang,U.S.]
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Shebang :
(Or "shebang line", "{bang path")
/sh*-bang'/ (Based on "{sharp" and "{bang}") The magic cookie
"#!" used in Unix to mark the start of a script, e.g. a
shell script or Perl script.
Under Unix, if the first two bytes of an executable file
are "#!", the kernel treats the file as a script rather than
a machine code program. The word following the "!" (i.e.,
everything up to the first whitespace) is used as the
pathname of the interpreter. For example, if the first
line of an executable is
#!/usr/local/bin/perl
the script will be treated as a Perl script and passed as an
argument to /usr/local/bin/perl to be interpreted. Some
variants of Unix also allow one or more parameters to be
passed to the interpreter, for example, you can write
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
and the script will be started as if you typed
/usr/bin/perl -w
on the command line. Also, most modern kernels ignore any
whitespace between the "!" and the interpreter pathname. Even
some modern kernels have fairly small limits (e.g. 32) on the
length of line they will accept, making long pathnames and
arguments somewhat unportable.
[Does anyone call this a "magic string"?]
(1998-05-06)
Based on the Online Dictionary of Computing [Computer_Dictionary]:
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Shebang : /sh*-bang/ n. The character sequence "#!" that frequently
begins executable shell scripts under Unix. Probably derived from "shell
bang" under the influence of American slang "the whole shebang"
(everything, the works).
Based on the Online Dictionary of Computing [Computer_Dictionary]:
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