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On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 02:21:58PM -0800, William Ahern wrote:
> My recently released runlua utility has an option to load and skip over any
> initial shell code in the file. But I just discovered a neat trick which
> obviates the need for such a feature.
>
> #!/bin/sh
> _=[[
> exec lua "$0" "$@"
> ]]
> print("Running", _VERSION)
> print("Options", ...)
>
> Probably others have figured this out, too, but it's new to me.
Rena posted nearly the same thing a few years ago:
http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2012-05/msg00171.html
His example is also portable. It doesn't rely on anything unique to bash.