On Mar 4, 2005, at 3:39 PM, der.hans wrote:
> Am 04. Mar, 2005 schwätzte Lynn David Newton so:
>>> #!/bin/sh
>>>
>>
>>   der.hans> Good, always leave the second line blank.
>>
>> Whereas I have included a blank line *always* in any
>> script that uses a shebang, I've done so mainly because
>> it looks good. I'm sure I've seen scripts that don't
>> have one. Therefore, my question is whether there is a
>> technical reason why a blank line should be there? I
>> tend to doubt it, and have never read anything about
>> this that I can recall. (I probably would have
>> remembered it.)
>
> There used to be. I think it was specifically for Perl scripts. Don't 
> know
> if it really matters anymore.
>
> I figure the extra character doesn't take much space, it makes the file
> much more readable and it keeps me from running into whatever obscure 
> bug
> there was that required a blank line :).

If you can find a reference to why this was the case, I'd really love 
to see it.  I spent about 15 minutes searching for this and while I 
found a few fleeting references to perl scripts having to have a blank 
second line (invariably followed by somebody saying "Why? I've never 
had to do that") I couldn't find anything that even attempted to 
explain why and when.

Personally, I haven't written enough perl scripts to say one way or 
another.  I have written more than my share of sh shell scripts and 
while I usually leave the second line blank or start it with a comment, 
I've never insisted on it and have never had a problem.

Kurt
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