Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 6 Dec 2008 13:02:14 +0100 | From | Geralt <> | Subject | Re: Shebang - why are parameters not splitted on whitespace? |
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On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 6:41 AM, <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu> wrote: > 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. > So you're saying that you can't do that because you don't know where to split the parameters, right? But would it be that bad to state a rule what "whitespace" is in the shebang line? -- 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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