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Re: /usr/bin/env

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> From: Marc Feeley <feeley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> I just found on http://www.bluetail.com/~joe/escript.html an
> interesting approach to write the "#!" line of a script.  The idea is
> to call up /usr/bin/env, and then it starts the script-interpreter
> with the command line arguments:
> 
>    #! /usr/bin/env script-interpreter
>    ...
> 
...deleted
> Anybody have experience, or comments about this?  Is /usr/bin/env
> "standard" or POSIX?

It (env) is in the Single Unix Spec.

It looks cleaner than a /bin/sh trampoline.

bengt