/usr/bin/env - Incorrect parsing of #! line?

[Christopher Faylor]

On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 07:38:21PM +0100, Peter J. Acklam wrote:
>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.

Because...  we're mean.

cgf

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