Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 18 days agoWhen 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?message-squaremessage-square27fedilinkarrow-up152arrow-down111
arrow-up141arrow-down1message-squareWhen 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?Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 18 days agomessage-square27fedilink
minus-squarebisby@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·18 days agoFascinating. 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!
minus-squarekhannie@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·edit-218 days agoIn college we were taught “hash exclamation, aka hash bang or shebang for short”.
minus-squareMagister@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·17 days agoI do un*x shell since the 90s, before linux, maybe this is why I have always called it that way
#!is “hash bang” so still hashI have always called that shebang.
Fascinating. The wikipedia page is for
shebangso 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!
In college we were taught “hash exclamation, aka hash bang or shebang for short”.
I do un*x shell since the 90s, before linux, maybe this is why I have always called it that way