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From: "Chris January" <chris AT atomice DOT net>
To: "Peter J. Acklam" <pjacklam AT online DOT no>
Cc: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: /usr/bin/env - Incorrect parsing of #! line?
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 22:59:26 -0000
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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.
Linux parses things this way too. I don't know what "UNIX"'s this works on.
(Sun, HP?)

Regards
Chris



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