From: ldo@nz.invalid

On Wed, 14 Jan 2026 13:09:25 -0000 (UTC), Lars Poulsen wrote:

> There was a blank line at the top, and the error messages must have
> come from the shell (bash) rather than from perl.

I have made a similar mistake once or twice, by forgetting the shebang
line in a Python script.

The symptom was, as soon as I ran the script, my terminal session
would completely hang.

Took me a while to figure out what was going on, the first time: the
system thought it was a shell script, and the first non-comment line
happened to be an “import” statement. As you may or may not know,
there is a command in the ImageMagick suite named “import”, for doing
screen captures. The hang was actually the program waiting for me to
select the window/region to capture.

I see that ImageMagick is now moving to prefix all its commands as
subcommands of a common “magick” command. I guess reducing pollution
of the global command-name space is, in general, a Good Thing ...

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