Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: /usr/bin/env - Incorrect parsing of #! line? Organization: Private From: pjacklam AT online DOT no (Peter J. Acklam) Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 19:38:21 +0100 Message-ID: <8z9y4kbm.fsf@online.no> User-Agent: Gnus/5.090006 (Oort Gnus v0.06) Emacs/21.1 (i386-msvc-nt5.0.2195) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Lines: 20 I use different computers where Perl is installed different places, so I can't hardcode the location of perl in the shebang line. Thus, I use env, which works great on all UNIXes I work on, for instance #!/usr/bin/env perl -w print "This is Perl version $]\n"; but 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. Peter -- People say I'm indifferent, but I don't care. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/