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# A Curious Shebang
- URL: https://starikov.co/curious-shebang/
- Published: 2018-09-27T22:50:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-13T08:34:47.000Z
- Author: Illya Starikov
- Tags: Computer Science, Code, #u-color-bg-tag-accent, #u-color-text-dark

If you've ever written a shell script, you'd top your script with your interpreter of choice (i.e. `#!/bin/python` or `#!/bin/bash`). What you might not know is that `rm` is also a valid interpreter. Take the following script.

```bash
#!/bin/rm
echo "Hello, world"

```

It would simply interpret to be removed. Useful? No. Hilarious? Yes.