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From: "David Gluss" <dgluss@marple-tech.com>
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Subject: Re: /usr/bin/env - Incorrect parsing of #! line?
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 13:56:00 -0000
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I've only tried it with csh, tcsh, sh, and bash.  I put that first line in
with a colon
to put emacs into perl-mode.  It could probably be a # instead...as long as
it's
not #!.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter J. Acklam" <pjacklam@online.no>
To: "David Gluss" <dgluss@marple-tech.com>
Cc: <cygwin@cygwin.com>; "Peter J. Acklam" <pjacklam@online.no>
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 12:15 PM
Subject: Re: /usr/bin/env - Incorrect parsing of #! line?


> "David Gluss" <dgluss@marple-tech.com> wrote:
>
> > I don't know if it's constructive to suggest an alternative trick,
rather
> > than trying to fix cygwin, in this forum.  However, this might work
> > for you:
> >>------------
> >>: # -*-Mode: perl;-*- use perl, wherever it is
> >>eval 'exec perl -wS $0 ${1+"$@"}'
> >>  if 0;
> >>#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w
> >>------------
>
> Thanks!  But I wonder, does the colon really belong there?  If so,
> what does it do?  Will this work under all common shells (sh, ksh,
> bash, zsh, csh, tcsh)?
>
> I hasitate to use a script with no shebang line, because I'm so
> used to it always being present in a script, but if I don't really
> need it, then I guess I can do without.
>
> Peter
>
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