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It is a magic comment though.

It's a comment ignored by the interpreter (bash, python, whatever).

The kernel just says "Hey! You can't execute a text file, you weirdo! I'll just read the very first line of the text file and if it happens to be a comment that points to another executable, I'll run that and pass it this file."



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