I think the first character of this script is still a newline. I think that makes the #! just a plain old comment (that is ignored), and not a shebang.

I think the first character of this script is still a newline. I think that makes the #! just a plain old comment (that is ignored), and not a shebang.

thanks, on linux it just works as no shebang is always interpreted as shell.

https://github.com/bazel-contrib/rules_jvm_external/blob/d8af22108bd8b353a226140570008231f2921931/private/rules/maven_publish.bzl#L12 looks like the closest comparable example so will remove newline too, based on that.

thanks, on linux it just works as no shebang is always interpreted as shell.

Yep.

https://github.com/bazel-contrib/rules_jvm_external/blob/d8af22108bd8b353a226140570008231f2921931/private/rules/maven_publish.bzl#L12 looks like the closest comparable example so will remove newline too, based on that.

Sgtm. See also my backslash suggestion in #65, if you want a different way to format it.