Perhaps, but I think it would be more useful to have a portable, agreed on path for systems which support the #! convention.
That's required for J scripts to be distributable. Thanks, -- Raul On Fri, Mar 10, 2023 at 12:04 AM Elijah Stone <elro...@elronnd.net> wrote: > > 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 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
