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Subject: /usr/bin/env - Incorrect parsing of #! line?
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From: pjacklam AT online DOT no (Peter J. Acklam)
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 19:38:21 +0100
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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

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