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Re: activestate perl on cygwin


On Wed, 10 Jan 2007, Andrew DeFaria wrote:

> I'm not sure I agree with your script's premise which states in the
> comment "Cygwin passes 'cygwin style' paths to the program in the #!
> statement". I don't believe that is true. Cygwin passes what you specify
> at the command line.

That part is actually correct.  Save the following two files, add the
directory where you saved test_script.wr to $PATH, and then invoke it by
name to see what I mean.
----------- BEGIN /usr/local/bin/wraptest -----------
#!/bin/sh
echo "$@"
------------ END /usr/local/bin/wraptest ------------
--------------- BEGIN test_script.wr ----------------
#!/usr/local/bin/wraptest
Doesn't matter what you put here...
---------------- END test_script.wr -----------------

FWIW, for the past few years I've been using the following script to allow
Windows programs in the shebang (#!) line:
------------- BEGIN /usr/local/bin/wrap -------------
#!/bin/sh
pname="$1"
fname="`cygpath -wi "$2"`"
shift 2 && exec "$pname" "$fname" "$@"
-------------- END /usr/local/bin/wrap --------------

A typical use would be as follows:

#!/usr/local/bin/wrap /cygdrive/c/perl/perl

which invokes ActiveState Perl with Win32 path to the current script and
with the rest of the arguments intact.
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