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shebang: /sh@·bang/, n.

[possibly a portmanteau of “sharp bang”] The character sequence “#!” that frequently begins executable shell scripts under Unix. Probably derived from “shell bang” under the influence of American slang “the whole shebang” (everything, the works).


 
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