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Creating certain scripts to use in Lubuntu/LXDE as described here that should look like this

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and were made to be run by shortcut as described in the last part of that answer, in order to search on the internet a selected text, I have made a mistake: I have started certain scripts with the line

#! bin/bash 

instead of

#! /bin/bash

but only discovered the error after trying to use the same scripts in a different system (Xfce in Mint), which made me search and find the answer here, which suggested the correction: and now the corrected scripts work as intended in Mint/Xfce.

But the scripts with the bad line are still working in Lubuntu as if the bad line was not that bad!

(The lxde shortcut settings are in ~/.config/openbox/lubuntu-rc.xml and they clearly indicate scripts that contain the bad line.)

How is this possible?

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Likely that different shells/interpreters aren't overly strict, and either don't pay attention to the shebang, or don't fault when the interpreter in the shebang doesn't exist. I would imagine the second is more likely.

What shell were you using in case?

cduffin
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  • What shell were you using: I'm not sure: it works in Lubuntu 12.10, but not in Linux Mint 14 with Xfce 4.10 –  Feb 08 '13 at 17:16
  • cduffin is correct. If you run the script with bash you will get an error bad interpreter: bin/bash: no such file or directory . If you run the script with sh or zsh it will work. – Panther Feb 08 '13 at 18:10