Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/02/13/09:58:57
My contribution is running the above script on a HPUX-10.20, so you may
take a better decision:
#!/usr/bin/env perl -v
This gives:
No such file or directory: perl -v
On Solaris2, this gives:
This is perl, v5.6.0 built for sun4-solaris
...
On Linux:
/usr/bin/env: perl -v: No such file or directory
On cygwin:
/usr/bin/env: perl -v: No such file or directory
So that only works fine on Solaris. I really don't know if there is a good
reason to scramble all arguments into one, and what's the story behind...
A remember that we were limited to 32 (or 31?) characters onto this line
some years ago :-) without advertising so it was happening that only on
character in the switch was missing for the interpreter (try to debug
that!)
Gerald S. Williams writes:
] I think DG's and PJA's original assessment was correct and
] BASH should be modified. Support for cross-platform scripts
] is important, and the #!/bin/env trick is used frequently.
]
] It is also not limited to env--any time you use multiple
] arguments to #! you get into trouble. For example, the
] following fails:
]
] #!/bin/python -tt -x
] print "hello, world"
]
] To avoid this, the scripting program would have to take
] special measures to split arguments containing spaces
] into multiple arguments. Perl does this, but defeating
] the shell's argument parser like this has got to be
] dangerous and no doubt involves some degree of magic.
] And as we've seen, that still doesn't help if you're
] using env to find perl.
]
] Solaris (System V) systems don't combine #! arguments
] that way. I don't currently have access to any, but from
] what I can recall, I'm pretty sure that SunOS (BSD) and
] the various flavors of HP and VAX UNIXes all work like
] Solaris in this regard.
]
] Ironically, this difference affects portability between
] Linux/Cygwin and traditional UNIX systems, but doesn't
] affect Windoze compatibility since only the extensions
] matter there and #! is ignored.
]
] I have also seen examples in popular Unix books (such
] as the O'Reilly nutshell books) that rely on multiple
] arguments.
]
] -Jerry
]
] -O Gerald S. Williams, 22Y-103GA : mailto:gsw AT agere DOT com O-
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]
] Christopher Faylor wrote:
] > > I think you're misinterpreting the problem. If it works the same way
] > > on linux and on cygwin, then there is nothing to fix.
]
] David Gluss wrote:
] > Hmm. You're right about that. In that case I will do nothing.
] > Of course I've always objected to that behavior...but so it is.
]
]
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