Timeline for What went wrong with my launchd plist?

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May 12, 2023 at 23:04	vote	accept	hbquikcomjamesl
May 12, 2023 at 16:38	comment	added	Gordon Davisson		It doesn't identify it as a shell script, but as a script of some kind -- could be shell, perl (`#!/usr/bin/perl`), awk (`#!/usr/bin/awk -f`), expect (`#!/usr/bin/expect`), etc. Some things (like bash) will assume it's a shell script, but they'll generally do the same thing if it doesn't have a shebang at all.
May 12, 2023 at 15:32	comment	added	hbquikcomjamesl		Point taken. Although I'd always understood that it identifies the file as a shell script, albeit without, as you point out, saying anything about what shell to use. And launchd wouldn't already be in a shell, so . . . .
May 12, 2023 at 5:33	comment	added	Gordon Davisson		A "generic shebang" is not valid. Some things (like bash) may ignore it, but it's not something you should ever actually use. The purpose of a shebang line is to specify the interpreter to use on the file, and `#!` does not do that.
May 11, 2023 at 23:45	history	answered	hbquikcomjamesl	CC BY-SA 4.0