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A shebang consists of a number sign and an exclamation point character (#!), followed by the full path to the interpreter such as /bin/bash. All scripts under UNIX and Linux execute using the interpreter specified on a first line.

Bash, Perl, PHP, Shell interpreters are not always in the same location such as /bin/bash or /usr/bin/perl. If you want to make sure that script is portable across different UNIX like operating system you need to use /usr/bin/env command.

env command allows to run a program in a modified environment.

# Find line
#!/bin/bash

# Replace with
#!/usr/bin/env bash
#!/usr/bin/env php
#!/usr/bin/env perl