A quick note on portable shebangs

While at first shebangs may seem pretty obvious and well supported, there is a number of not-so-well-known portability issues affecting them. Only during my recent development work, I have hit more than one of them. For this reason, I’d like to write a quick note summarizing how to stay on the safe side and keep your scripts working across various systems.

Please note I will only cover the basic solution to the most important portability issues. If you’d like to know more about shebang handling in various systems, I’d like to recommend you an excellent article ‘The #! magic, details about the shebang/hash-bang mechanism on various Unix flavours’ by Sven Mascheck.

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