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Re: /usr/bin/env - Incorrect parsing of #! line?
"Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall@rfk.com> wrote:
> Well if env documentation states a particular behavior and that
> behavior is not what you see, then there is a bug in env or it's
> documentation.
What made me believe that "#!/usr/bin/env perl -w" should work was
the following part of the documentation for env:
NAME
env - run a program in a modified environment
SYNOPSIS
env [OPTION]... [-] [NAME=VALUE]... [COMMAND [ARG]...]
It clearly says that the command (COMMAND) takes arguments (ARG).
Indeed it does on the command line, but not on the shebang line.
> You should contact it's maintainer and since it appears to be a
> general issue, you should contact the GNU maintainer, not the
> Cygwin.
I'm not sure what to do, if anything, since this behaviour seems
to be so common. For all I know, someone might count on it.
Peter
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