On Thu, 2020-10-08 at 21:59 +0200, Tom H wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 8, 2020 at 12:01 PM Patrick O'Callaghan
> <pocallag...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2020-10-08 at 08:14 +1100, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> > > On 07Oct2020 11:07, Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallag...@gmail.com>
> > > wrote:
> > > > On Tue, 2020-10-06 at 15:45 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
> > > > > I start all my Raku programs with
> > > > > 1: #!/usr/bin/env raku
> > > > 
> > > > Why? If you aren't adding options to 'env', surely this is the same
> > > > as using '/usr/bin/bash'.
> > > 
> > > No, this is a standard shebang (#!) hack to accomodate differering
> > > installation paths. The #! requires a fixed absolute path. So things
> > > which are often installed in different places (such as raku above)
> > > like /usr/local/bin or /opt/something and accessed via the user's
> > > $PATH setting, putting in this line makes the script more portable.
> > 
> > The user's export environment, including the PATH setting, is
> > automatically included, even if you have no shebang at all:
> > 
> > $ cat test
> > type python3
> > echo $PATH
> > $ chmod+x test
> > $ ./test
> > python3 is /usr/bin/python3
> > /usr/lib64/qt-3.3/bin:/usr/share/Modules/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/home/poc/.local/bin:/home/poc/bin
> 
> You missed "#! requires a fixed absolute path", so you can't use
> "#!bash" even though $PATH is set.

Yes, I know.

> Using #!/usr/bin/env bash" supplies "#!" with an absolute path and
> runs the script using the first instance of "bash" in $PATH.

OK, I can see the point of that, thanks. I realise that Cameron was
saying the same thing and I hadn't absorbed it.

poc
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