From: Christian Luginbuehl Date: 2007-05-12T01:35:52+09:00 Subject: Re: shebang - what's the point? >> Say you have a script that does some kind of sorting. You rename your >> >> sort.rb file to sort >> >> and give it the shebang line. If it's in the PATH you can simply run it >> like: >> >> $ sort testfile.txt >> >> which I think is pretty neat. > > Probably best not to call a script by the same name as a unix command. Very true, my bad! So rename it to 'steroidsort' and (the other thing I forgot :-() make it executable. Cheers, Christian Luginbuehl