Shebang

Shebang is slang used with the computer Perl programming language and other script files. The term shebang refers to the "#!" (pound and exclamation mark) located at the top of script files that point to the associated program's path. For example, in a Perl script, the complete line may look like the following:

#!/usr/local/bin/perl

This line instructs the operating system running the Perl script on where the executable for Perl and its associated files are located. This line is commonly only required in Linux and Unix variants, users running Perl in Microsoft Windows do not need this line.

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