From: Enrique Comba Riepenhausen <ecomba@...>
Date: 2007-05-11T23:48:58+09:00
Subject: Re: shebang - what's the point?

On 11 May 2007, at 16:43, Todd Burch wrote:

> I've written a few hundred scripts now, and not once have I ever  
> coded a
> shebang line.  I'm writing on both Windows and the Mac (Tiger).
>
> Any time I'm kicking off a script from the Command Prompt or in  
> Terminal
> on the Mac, I simply type
>
> ruby <name>.rb
>
> and it works just fine.
>
> So, when it comes down to it, what's the point of the shebang line?
>
> Todd

Basically so that instead of

ruby <name>.rb

you can write

./<name>.rb

in the shell prompt.

Will only work in *NIX environments though (UNIX, LINUX, BSD, OS X,  
Cygwin, etc.)

Cheers,

Enrique Comba Riepenhausen