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Re: Fun with #! (aka shebang) and filenames ending in .exe
Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu> wrote:
> 'Ware of this issue:
>
> <QUOTE from http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#AEN846>
> If a shell script myprog and a program myprog.exe coexist in a
> directory, the program has precedence and is selected for execution of
> myprog.
> </QUOTE>
The original poster was actually pointing out a different issue:
If the shell script itself is named myprog.exe, it is executed as
a Windows executable rather than as a shell script.
It would be nice if the file could be checked for beginning with "#!",
but perhaps the only real solution is Don't Do That, Then.
Robert
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