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The second will fail, complaining "/bin/ls: invalid option -- "
It's the same as typing "ls '-l -R'" at the command line: the arguments get passed as ONE argument and "ls" gets confused. This is the kernel at work, not the shell. When it sees "#!", the first token after that becomes the pathname to be executed, and the rest is packed into argv[1] (argv[2] is the script filename).
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