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How do hashbangs work?

You assume your press of the keyboard will bubble up through the kernel to your terminal, your HTTP request will remain intact after travelling halfway across the globe, and that your stream of a cat video will be decoded and rendered on your screen. The code snippets won’t include things such as error checking, locking, and other items I deem only tangentially related the core question of this article. int argc, envc- our command line argument and environment counts const char * filename- the name of the binary that’s seen by the ‘ps’ utility.

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