What is a shebang line?

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Posted On: Feb 22, 2018

 

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    Answered by Prachi

    It refers to the character sequence which includes characters number sign along with their exclamation mark before the beginning of any script. It signifies "#" which is present at the top of a large number of script files and it points to a part of the associated program. The form of its interpreter directive is represented as- #! Interpreter [optional -arg], it is an absolute path to execute the program.

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