Re: PATCH: installing executable functions

[Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Jan 29,  9:54pm, Peter Stephenson wrote:
}
} ("sed -ne '1p'" is in case there's some ghastliness where "head -1" is
} broken as has occasionally been observed with "tail -1".)
} 
} The biggest disadvantage here is this could make function installation
} on some systems, notably Cygwin, even more interminable.

Perhaps this would be faster?

  if test -n "`sed -ne 2q -e '/^#!/p' $sdir_top/$file`"; then

} +    if sed -ne '1p' $sdir_top/$file | grep '^#!' >/dev/null; then