Perhaps it's simply time to tell the interpreter to start ignoring the first
line of a script if it starts with #!...
On Thu, 9 Mar 2023, Raul Miller wrote:
The recent change in directory naming from j903 to j9.4 introduces an
interesting issue for shell scripts on unix-like systems.
In J shell scripts, this works:
#!/home/username/j903/bin/jconsole
However, this fails with a spelling error:
#!/home/username/j9.4/bin/jconsole
Or, on OSX, the shebang line is different, but the spelling error remains:
#!/Applications/j9.4/bin/jconsole
That said, there's some other issues here, related to portability. One
of which is that (as a general rule) a home directory is personal
rather than portable. Another is that there's official java jconsole
which does not understand J.
But, also, for a long time now, Debian based distributions have been
distributing j with /usr/bin/ijconsole as a symbolic link to the
current installed location for J. (Here, the 'i' in ijconsole stands
for Iverson.)
So I think that now would be a good time to adopt that as "documented
standard practice" for j shell scripts.
FYI,
--
Raul
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