[IPython-user] ipython to replace bash scripts?

[Robert Kern]

On 2009-12-09 11:09 AM, Florian Lindner wrote:
> Helllo,
>
> I have some small bash scripts that I want to replace with python scripts.
>
> - Is ipython -p sh the right interpreter to start? My first try to do
> something bash like was:
>
> #!/usr/bin/ipython -p sh

This won't work. By the POSIX standard, you can only have one argument after the 
executable, not two.

-- 
Robert Kern

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