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Subject:	Re: /usr/bin/env - Incorrect parsing of #! line?
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From:	pjacklam AT online DOT no (Peter J. Acklam)
Date:	Wed, 20 Feb 2002 21:28:46 +0100
In-Reply-To:	<007301c1b418$ec8aaad0$0100a8c0@advent02> ("Chris January"'s
	message of "Tue, 12 Feb 2002 22:59:26 -0000")
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"Chris January" <chris AT atomice DOT net> wrote:

> Peter J. Acklam wrote:
>
> > [...] 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?)

I have worked with many UNIXes, but now that I think about it, I
have probably only used the line "#!/usr/bin/env perl -w" on
Solaris.  However, it works on solaris 2.3, 2.5, 7, and 8.

Peter

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