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Date:	Fri, 26 Mar 2004 01:15:38 -0500
From:	Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: bash bad interpreter - a new twist!
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On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 11:02:24PM -0600, Tom Rodman wrote:
>>I'm using cygwin (september 2003 build) and ActiveState perl.  To connect 
>>ActiveState into cygwin I use a proxy /usr/local/bin/perl bourne shell 
>>script that essentially transalates the paths (cygpath -w) and delegates to 
>>the ActiveState perl.exe binary.  Given the following foobar script:
>>
>>#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w
>>print "foobar world\n";
>
>The "#!" construct must always refer to a binary, never to another
>script (to avoid loops?).  I ran into the same issue.  The UNIX
>standard is what I just said, but earlier (and current?) cygwin
>versions (wrongly) sorta supported a script.  In 1.3.20 it works about
>2 out of 5 times or so - if you try a similar approach on a UNIX box it
>will fail *every* time.

Actually, no.  It won't.  The #! can refer to a script.  Just tried it
on Tru64 and on linux.

The second script would have to be carefully constructed to recognize
the 'print "foobar world\n"', though.

cgf

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