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pkg/56607: Inconsistent and misspelled shebang terms in pkgsrc Developer's Guide



>Number:         56607
>Category:       pkg
>Synopsis:       Inconsistent and misspelled shebang terms in pkgsrc Developer's Guide
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    pkg-manager
>State:          open
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Jan 05 17:05:00 +0000 2022
>Originator:     J. Lewis Muir
>Release:        current
>Organization:
>Environment:
>Description:
In

  https://netbsd.org/docs/pkgsrc/fixes.html

if you search for "bang", you will find the following two terms used:

1. she-bang
2. hash bang

Those are misspelled, and it would be better to use one term throughout for the construct.
>How-To-Repeat:

>Fix:
For the first, I haven't seen "she-bang" (i.e., with a dash); I think that would normally be "shebang" (i.e., without a dash).  Wikipedia

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shebang_(Unix)

does list "sha-bang" if perhaps that was the intended spelling.

For the second, that should probably be "hash-bang" (i.e., with a dash), again according to Wikipedia (which lists sources).

For the whole guide (which is just fixes.xml as far as I can tell), I think it would be better to choose one term to use throughout.  My vote would be "shebang", but whatever is chosen, it should be consistently used.


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