shebang strange thing...

[Van Gale]

Erik Max Francis wrote:
> Van Gale wrote:
> 
>>There's a very subtle bug (feature?) in bash (and maybe other shells?)
>>that will generate this error if the line is terminated with a CR/LF
>>pair instead of just a linefeed.
> 
> 
> Yes, it's common to other shells.  It's not a feature, but it's not a
> "bug" per se -- using CR LF terminated text files on Unix is operator
> error.

Well guess what, it happens.  It even happens when the "operator" is 
aware of the problem.  So lets not call it a bug, and instead call it 
poor programming because the error message is not only incorrect, but 
will also waste a fair amount of time of someone trying to debug the 
problem because it points them in the wrong direction.