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From: "Chris January" <chris@atomice.net>
To: "Peter J. Acklam" <pjacklam@online.no>
Cc: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: /usr/bin/env - Incorrect parsing of #! line?
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 14:57:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <007301c1b418$ec8aaad0$0100a8c0@advent02> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8z9y4kbm.fsf@online.no>

> 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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  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-02-12 22:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-02-12 10:38 Peter J. Acklam
2002-02-12 10:53 ` Christopher Faylor
2002-02-12 12:16   ` Peter J. Acklam
2002-02-12 14:25     ` Charles Wilson
2002-02-12 14:59       ` David Gluss
2002-02-20 13:03       ` Peter J. Acklam
2002-02-12 11:56 ` David Gluss
2002-02-12 12:17   ` Peter J. Acklam
2002-02-12 13:56     ` David Gluss
2002-02-12 14:57 ` Chris January [this message]
2002-02-20 12:57   ` Peter J. Acklam
2002-02-12 15:22 Chris January
2002-02-12 17:47 David Gluss
2002-02-12 17:54 ` Christopher Faylor
2002-02-12 19:10   ` David Gluss
2002-02-13  6:26     ` Gerald S. Williams
2002-02-13  6:38       ` Michael Schaap
2002-02-13  6:39       ` Robert Praetorius
2002-02-13  6:52       ` Benoit Rochefort
2002-02-14 11:55       ` Gerald S. Williams
2002-02-20 12:57   ` Peter J. Acklam
2002-02-20 13:37     ` Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
2002-02-21 12:47       ` Peter J. Acklam
2002-02-21 13:04         ` Peter J. Acklam
2002-02-21 19:10         ` William F. Hammond
2002-02-20 21:33     ` Christopher Faylor
2002-02-21 13:23       ` Peter J. Acklam
2002-02-13  6:50 Chet Ramey
2002-02-13  7:16 ` Gerald S. Williams
2002-02-13  6:53 Chet Ramey
2002-02-13 10:37 ` Christopher Faylor
2002-02-13 11:14   ` Lassi A. Tuura
2002-02-13 14:13 Heribert Dahms
2002-02-22  1:27 pjacklam
2002-02-22  4:34 ` Michael Schaap
2002-02-22  5:26 pjacklam

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