Scripting is such a great way to relax. Well, at least in my
eyes, that’s a great way to relax. Scripting can be as easy as
telling your OS it needs to do something at a specific time or
as complicated as synchronizing multiple folders on various
servers on various platforms. (Insert example here). I thought
it would be fun to post a little `Computer Science 101` here.
Most of us Developers love our terminal (possibly even the
Microsoft lovers), and we all know how to start off a basic
shell application or script. Shebang, Hashbang.. what ever you
call her, she is there to get your script aimed in the right
direction. In computing, a shebang (also called a sha-bang,
hashbang, pound-bang, hash-exclam, or hash-pling) is the
character sequence consisting of the characters number sign and
exclamation mark (that is, “#!”) when it occurs as the initial
two characters on the initial line of a script. Under Unix-like
operating systems, when a script with a shebang is run as a
program, the program loader parses the re