At 15:25 13-2-2002, Gerald S. Williams wrote: >I think DG's and PJA's original assessment was correct and >BASH should be modified. Support for cross-platform scripts >is important, and the #!/bin/env trick is used frequently.
Not so sure it's a bash thing. Ash and zsh on Cygwin do exactly the same. >Solaris (System V) systems don't combine #! arguments >that way. I don't currently have access to any, but from >what I can recall, I'm pretty sure that SunOS (BSD) and >the various flavors of HP and VAX UNIXes all work like >Solaris in this regard. HP-UX 10.20 behaves the same as Cygwin and Linux with bash, ksh and sh. >I have also seen examples in popular Unix books (such >as the O'Reilly nutshell books) that rely on multiple >arguments. Well, those are not portable examples, then. - Michael -- I always wondered about the meaning of life. So I looked it up in the dictionary under "L" and there it was - the meaning of life. It was not what I expected. - Dogbert -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/