I named a Ruby file app.py and it worked. I only noticed later. Why is that possible. It wasn’t anything complicated, just a small Sinatra recipe but still, I don’t understand.
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I named a Ruby file app.py and it worked. I only noticed later. Why is that possible. It wasn’t anything complicated, just a small Sinatra recipe but still, I don’t understand.
Under Unix (say, Linux or similar), the first line of a script contains the path to its interpreter. The line’s called Shebang or Crunchbang and looks like that:
If you rename you file, the path to the interpreter still remains unchanged and therefore the script will be executed as before.