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Re: /usr/bin/env - Incorrect parsing of #! line?
- From: "Chris January" <chris at atomice dot net>
- To: "Peter J. Acklam" <pjacklam at online dot no>
- Cc: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 22:59:26 -0000
- Subject: Re: /usr/bin/env - Incorrect parsing of #! line?
- References: <8z9y4kbm.fsf@online.no>
> I use different computers where Perl is installed different
> places, so I can't hardcode the location of perl in the shebang
> line. Thus, I use env, which works great on all UNIXes I work on,
> for instance
>
> #!/usr/bin/env perl -w
>
> print "This is Perl version $]\n";
>
> but on Cygwin I get
>
> /usr/bin/env: perl -w: No such file or directory
>
> why does Cygwin look for the file "perl -w". No UNIX I have
> worked on would parse the shebang line that way.
Linux parses things this way too. I don't know what "UNIX"'s this works on.
(Sun, HP?)
Regards
Chris
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