On Saturday 19 January 2008, Ondrej Certik wrote:
> On Jan 19, 2008 7:38 AM, Ondrej Certik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Jan 18, 2008 10:00 PM, Georg Grafendorfer
> >
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Michael,
> > > OK, i'm already a bit confused, and i don't know any more what your
> > > requesting exactly, so i will repeat some things:
> > >
> > > The file with the name ./example.sage
> > > #!/home/georg/Daten/.System/bin/sage/sage -python
> > > import sys
> > >
> > > gives me that strange mouse behaviour where the mouse pointer changes
> > > to a cross (but not this "X-cross" known from pure X-Window) and
> > > clicking on the 3 mouse buttons brings me back to the command line with
> > > no output at all, this is because of the "import sys" line, without
> > > this line nothing happens (just back to the next command line prompt).
> >
> > This made me curious, becuase I also use Debian (sid) and I get the
> > exact same behaviour
> > as you do and I wasn't able to figure out where the problem is in the
> > last 10 minutes. Need to go now.
>
> ok, this works:
>
Case 1:
> $ cat t.py
> #!/bin/sh /home/ondra/ext/sage/sage
> import sys
> $ ./t.py
> $
>
> And this doesn't:
>
Case 2:
> $ cat t.py
> #!/home/ondra/ext/sage/sage
> import sys
> $ ./t.py
>
> (I get the cross - which means that it's bash, who is executing that file
> btw)
>
Case 3:
> $ cat t.py
> #!/bin/sh /home/ondra/ext/sage/sage -python
> import sys
> $ ./t.py
> /bin/sh: /home/ondra/ext/sage/sage -python: No such file or directory
>
>
> So I don't know. But it must be something stupid - I bet this used to
> work for me before.
>
> Ondrej
I just tried this under Ubuntu.
Case 1 works

Case 2 outputs 
./t.py: line 2: import: command not found

Case 3 behaves as yours.

My 2p: My understanding of the #! convention is that the line is split
up into three parts:
#!
<program name>
<argument(s)>
The <program name> must be an executable PROGRAM, not a script.
The <argument(s) gets treated as a single string.

This would explain my behaviour. Don't know what Debian does in case 2,
Ubuntu seems to just ignore the first line if it's not a true executable
and executes the rest of the file with /bin/sh.

Bill
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