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		jval43 on May 20, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Shebang Quine Very interesting and a good read. I was not aware that you could pass an argument in the shebang line.

hk__2 on May 20, 2016 [–]

It’s often used to have your shell scripts fail fast by using `#! /usr/bin/bash -e`; which you could also do by using `set -e` at the beginning of the script but that’s less elegant.

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