On Tue, 2004-03-30 at 13:47, Mary Gardiner wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I'm accustomed to starting my various Python and Perl files with:
>
> #!/usr/bin/env python
>
> or
>
> #!/usr/bin/env perl
>
> to deal with the situation where the python or perl binary lives in
> different places on different systems (please don't reply suggesting I
> just move it or just install Debian or something, some of us still work
> in archaic environments where we don't have root on servers we use!!!!)
>
> However, you can't pass arguments to whatever you're invoking, thanks to
> the limits of the #! interpretion ("#!/usr/bin/env perl -w" at the top
> of a file causes a search for a binary named "perl -w"). Are you sure? env --help suggests that it doesn't. Rob -- GPG key available at: <http://www.robertcollins.net/keys.txt>.
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