Comment on When did the world change to the so called hashtag? When I was younger it was only the pound sign. So hashtag Taylor Swift still reads in my mind pound Taylor Swift?

dcoe@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• bisby@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  #! is “hash bang” so still hash

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  • Magister@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I have always called that shebang.

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    • bisby@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Fascinating. The wikipedia page is for shebang so clearly you are right.

      But the wikipedia page also cites it being called hashbang – citing mostly o’reilly books.

      Now I’m intrigued, not that I have a lot of reason to talk about shell scripts, but I had never heard it called any other way.

      TIL, thanks!

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      • khannie@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        In college we were taught “hash bang or shebang for short”.

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