Re: [Bug-apl] Error in description of "#!" line

[Juergen Sauermann]

Hi Keith, thanks. I did a quick test with the /usr/bin/env approach. On GNU/Linux (Linux Mint) it seems like the command line options for apl are not passed properly: eedjsa@server66:~/projects/juergen/apl-1.5/src$ cat x #! /usr/bin/env apl --script 'ARG:' ⎕ARG )OFF eedjsa@server66:~/projects/juergen/apl-1.5/src$ ./x /usr/bin/env: apl --script: No such file or directory eedjsa@server66:~/projects/juergen/apl-1.5/src$ If I remove the --script then it works. However, my statement about the shell's PATH seems to be wrong and will be corrected in the next  SVN revision. /// Jürgen On 02/25/2016 05:57 PM, Keith Thompson wrote: The GNU APL manual says: APL is script-able; a text file whose first line looks like this (assuming the APL interpreter binary is called apl and can be found in the shell’s PATH): #! apl or (if the APL interpreter binary is /mypath/apl but not necessarily in the shell’s PATH): #! /mypath/apl In fact the "#! apl" version will not work on most systems. The "#!" mechanism doesn't pay attention to $PATH, so you have to specify the full path to the interpreter. A common workaround is: #!/usr/bin/env apl I've discussed the pros and cons of that idiom here: http://unix.stackexchange.com/a/29620/10454