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From: Sam Edge <sam DOT edgeZZZ AT lineone DOT net>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: behaviour of "for (( exp1; exp2; exp3 )); do COMMANDS; done"
Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 15:22:36 +0100
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Harald Maier <maierh AT myself DOT com> wrote in <m3brxn1f9w DOT fsf AT ate DOT maierh>
in gmane.os.cygwin on Wed, 28 May 2003 13:28:43 +0200:

> > (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?

Ho hum ... off topic thread alert! Mea culpa. ;-)

Regards,
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Sam Edge

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