Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 1 day 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-square46fedilinkarrow-up183arrow-down110
arrow-up173arrow-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 · 1 day agomessage-square46fedilink
minus-squarebisby@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 day 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-squarebryndos@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up1·13 hours ago“#!” was also used as shorthand for “crunchbang linux”.
minus-squarekhannie@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·edit-21 day agoIn college we were taught “hash exclamation, aka hash bang or shebang for short”.
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!
“#!” was also used as shorthand for “crunchbang linux”.
In college we were taught “hash exclamation, aka hash bang or shebang for short”.