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What is the meaning of #! in a Bash (shell) script?


Chris DuBois
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The #! (shebang) at the beginning of a script tells the system which interpreter should execute the script. In Bash scripts, #!/bin/bash specifies that the script should be run using the Bash shell. But how does this work across different shells, and why is it important?

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