Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Shebang - why are parameters not splitted on whitespace? | From | Valdis.Kletnieks@vt ... | Date | Sat, 06 Dec 2008 00:41:23 -0500 |
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On Sat, 06 Dec 2008 01:04:52 GMT, Américo Wang said: > On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 5:29 PM, Geralt <usr.gentoo@googlemail.com> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I should have anticipated this objection :-). I'm aware that this is > > not consistent among Unix operating systems (you can find more about > > it here [1]), but I was specifically refering to linux in this case > > and why it handles the shebang arguments as one big string and not as > > single arguments for the application. > > I can't think out any strong reasons, maybe only becasue Linux developers > prefer that approach.
And of course, "whitespace" is a somewhat fungible concept. 'man bash' and read about $IFS. [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |