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Using a Shebang Line on Unix/Linux

# A shebang line may appear on the first line of a Ruby program (or other program or script). 
# It helps a Unix/Linux system execute the commands according to a specified interpreterRuby. 
# This does not work on Windows.


#!/usr/bin/env ruby   

puts "Hello, Tom!"








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