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Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 15:37:54 +0100
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From: Michael Schaap <cygwin AT mscha DOT org>
Subject: RE: /usr/bin/env - Incorrect parsing of #! line?
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At 15:25 13-2-2002, Gerald S. Williams wrote:
>I think DG's and PJA's original assessment was correct and
>BASH should be modified. Support for cross-platform scripts
>is important, and the #!/bin/env trick is used frequently.

Not so sure it's a bash thing.
Ash and zsh on Cygwin do exactly the same.


>Solaris (System V) systems don't combine #! arguments
>that way. I don't currently have access to any, but from
>what I can recall, I'm pretty sure that SunOS (BSD) and
>the various flavors of HP and VAX UNIXes all work like
>Solaris in this regard.

HP-UX 10.20 behaves the same as Cygwin and Linux with bash, ksh and sh.


>I have also seen examples in popular Unix books (such
>as the O'Reilly nutshell books) that rely on multiple
>arguments.

Well, those are not portable examples, then.

  - Michael

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