Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: behaviour of "for (( exp1; exp2; exp3 )); do COMMANDS; done" References: <002901c32427$2e1553e0$78d96f83@pomello> <20030527120718.GA22030@convex.org.uk> <77h9dvo3rjbopg45hi1ec65igvfv6i2lkg@4ax.com> From: Harald.Maier.BW@t-online.de (Harald Maier) Reply-To: Harald Maier Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 11:32:23 +0200 In-Reply-To: <77h9dvo3rjbopg45hi1ec65igvfv6i2lkg@4ax.com> (Sam Edge's message of "Wed, 28 May 2003 15:22:36 +0100") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Sender: 320041125923-0001@t-dialin.net Sam Edge writes: > Harald Maier wrote: > >> > (OT) Does anyone know if any of the common shells, when they see >> > "#!/bin/xxxx" at the front of a script, try a $PATH search for an >> > "xxxx" executable if they can't find "/bin/xxxx"? This would seem like >> > a good idea to me. >> Some people are using the env program to use the PATH environment: >> #! /usr/bin/env perl >> BEGIN { $^W = 1 } > > Erm ... doesn't this just duplicate the problem? How can you guarantee > that "env" is always in /usr/bin? > > It's also pretty inefficient, isn't it? It gives you the freedom to start different interpreters with the same script. E.g. perl-5.6 or perl-5.8. This might be interesting for testing purposes. What are you looking for? Harald -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/