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		counttheforks on Oct 27, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Shell script best practices, from a decade of scri... Not going to install fish on all of my servers just so i can run your scripts, sorry. They already have bash pre-installed, though. > If I want to run some POSIX-compatible script then I just use `bash scripts.sh` Shouldn't you be using a shebang?

lannisterstark on Oct 29, 2022 [–]

>Shouldn't you be using a shebang?

Why would they use a shebang? `bash script.sh` works perfectly fine. Ever used a terminal?

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