New user questions ... be gentle

[Grant Edwards]

On 20 Aug 2000 09:41:28 -0400, François Pinard <pinard at iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:

>> I may be wrong on this but some scripts look as thought they are
>> executable like .exe files.  How is this done?
>
>From your question, I presume you work on Windows, while my culture is
>more on the Unix side.  I'm sure this is quite doable on both platforms.
>On Linux, you just mark your script as executable (with `chmod +x FILE')
>and ensure it starts with the line `#/usr/bin/env python'.

that should be #!/usr/bin/...

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