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06.18.2008 at 05:31AM PDT, ID: 23494883
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What does the -f in this line mean?

Asked by jrram in Shell Scripting, Bourne-Again Shell (bash)

Tags: Linux, Bash

I have a shell script with the very first line being:

#!/bin/sh -f

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[+][-]06.18.2008 at 05:41AM PDT, ID: 21812176

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[+][-]06.18.2008 at 05:44AM PDT, ID: 21812198

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