Add fix-shebang.

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+.\" Copyright 2011 Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi>
+.\" 
+.\" This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+.\" it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+.\" the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+.\" (at your option) any later version.
+.\" 
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+.\" but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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+.\" GNU General Public License for more details.
+.\" 
+.\" You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+.\" along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+.\"
+.TH FIX-SHEBANG 1
+.SH NAME
+fix-shebang \- set the #! line for scripts
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.B fix-shebang
+.RB [ \-\-shebang\fR=\fIinterp ]
+.IR file ...
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+.B fix-shebang
+sets the interpreter or 
+.I shebang
+line for script files.
+This is the line that starts with
+.R #!
+at the beginning of on the first line.
+For example, typically a shell script would be
+.sp 1
+.RS
+#!/bin/sh
+.RE
+.sp 1
+For other interpreters, such as Python or Perl or Ruby,
+it may be necessary to change the interpreter on different systems.
+.B fix-shebang
+makes that easy.
+.SH OPTIONS
+.TP
+.BR \-\-shebang =\fIinterpreter
+Set the interpreter to be 
+.BR #!\fIinterpreter .