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Followup to: <E18JgHI-0006Gx-00@chiark.greenend.org.uk> By author: Matthew Garrett <mgarrett@chiark.greenend.org.uk> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > The *only* thing you can reliably use in #! lines is an interpreter > followed by a single argument with no trailing space. On NetBSD with > bash as /bin/sh: > > mjg59@cysteine:/tmp$ cat foo.pl > #!/bin/sh -- # -*- perl -*- -p > mjg59@cysteine:/tmp$ ./foo.pl > /bin/sh: -- # -*- perl -*- -p: unrecognized option > > File a bug against perlrun(1). > I personally think that it would be nice to split it by spaces (but yes, ' " and \ need to be handled for this to work.) It allows things like using env to spawn a binary where the location of the interpreter is to be extracted from PATH, for example. -hpa -- <hpa@transmeta.com> at work, <hpa@zytor.com> in private! "Unix gives you enough rope to shoot yourself in the foot." http://www.zytor.com/~hpa/puzzle.txt <amsp@zytor.com> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | |||||||||
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