newbie problem: bash scripting

lchxr · 11-13-2009, 09:34 AM

Hi,

I am new to bash programming, but I have noticed that many bash script starting with

#!/bin/sh
# $ID, xxx,sh, v 0.92 2008/04/23 12:23:03 root Exp root $

I understand the first line is to invoke /bin/sh, but what for the second line is used, is there any rule of how to write the second line?

TBC Cosmo · 11-13-2009, 09:43 AM

That second line is just a comment that shows versioning and what the file is actually named. You can totally omit that.