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@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ If you want to share your script with others, you might want to use :command:`en
 
 This will call ``env``, which then goes through :envvar:`PATH` to find a program called "fish". This makes it work, whether fish is installed in /usr/local/bin/fish or /usr/bin/fish or ~/.local/bin/fish, as long as that directory is in :envvar:`PATH`.
 
-The shebang line is only used when scripts are executed without specifying the interpreter [#]_. For functions inside fish or when executing a script with ``fish /path/to/script``, a shebang is not required (but it doesn't hurt!).
+The shebang line is only used when scripts are executed without specifying the interpreter. For functions inside fish or when executing a script with ``fish /path/to/script``, a shebang is not required (but it doesn't hurt!).
 
 When executing files without an interpreter, fish, like other shells, tries your system shell, typically /bin/sh. This is needed because some scripts are shipped without a shebang line.