On Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:08:07 -0600 Doug Poland articulated: > Hello, > > I'm trying port some shell scripts to FreeBSD that were originally > written on Darwin (OS X). > > The issue I'm having is the shebang line of the scripts in OS X is > #!/bin/sh, and it turns out that is really an instance of bash, and > the code contains some bashisms. On FreeBSD I have bash in > /usr/local/bin/bash. > > Is there an "easy/best" way to have a single shebang that works on > both OS's? I'd rather not change FreeBSD's bourne shell to bash with > any symlinking of /usr/local/bin/bash to /bin/sh.
I have written several scripts for use on different OSs, all written in Bash since that is my preferred scripting language, and have used this as the shebang quite effectively: #!/usr/bin/env bash By the way, what version of Bash? If it is v4.x there are many improvements that do not work on older v3.x and v2.x versions. -- Jerry ♔ Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies or get ignored. Please do not ignore the Reply-To header. __________________________________________________________________ Religion is the anthropomorphization of reality, that behind it all there's an invisible man pulling invisible strings _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"