what do you call that first line that specifies the path to your php interpreter?

sneakyimp

OK this is the first line of my php script that is intended to be run via command line:

#!/usr/bin/php

What do you call that? Is it a bang?

NogDog

shebang

🙂

NogDog

PS: According to Wikipedia, it may also be called a hashbang, hashpling, pound bang, or crunchbang. 🙂

sneakyimp

Oh yeah! Didn't Ricky Martin sing a song about shebangs?

bradgrafelman

insert the largest eye roll you've ever seen HERE

EDIT: By the way.. REMIX!

laserlight

I thought that in this context "shebang" refers to "#!", so that first line is... the line beginning with a shebang that specifies the path to your php interpreter :p

dalecosp

#! = shebang
$@ = William Hurt's version
<-! = hebang
<--! = HEbang
#!<--!<--!<--! = gangbang
|O| o-- = bangagong
#! = The Big Bang
!! 0xDEADDEAD = bang bang, your computer just BSOD'ed

😃