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On Sun, 10 Dec 2006 19:39:43 +0200, Yossi Kreinin
<yossi.kreinin@xxxxxxxx.xxx> wrote:
> Timothy Knox wrote:
> >>
> >>Sometimes there is /usr/bin/env but not /bin/env. Turtles all the
> >>way down.
> >
> >
> > Not just sometimes. On the FreeBSD box I happen to do my email on, it's
> > /usr/bin/env. People who only deal with a few (or one) flavour of Unix
> > think portability is simple (just do it the way (my) Unix does it). I work
> > in Linux (RHEL4 clone), Solaris (9, 10), and Cygwin/Windows. *sigh* Oh, and
> > I forgot FreeBSD. And Mac OS X.
> >
> > "Consistency? Hah! Simplicity? Hah! A Jedi craves not these things!"
> >
> > Pfui!
> >
>
> I see a start-up: development, maintainance and distribution of
> whereisenvdamnit. Usage example: #!/bin/whereisenvdamnit env tcsh. The key
> technology is a network of professional killers hunting down losers who place
> whereisenv is /usr/bin/, /loser/bin and the like.
>
> We could make a fortune!
>
> I wonder if those systems where you can't have long #! lines are still around
> though. That could jeopardize the success of the enterprise.
Why not send in patches to all shells and OS distros so that we don't need a
PATH anymore, but
#!sh
#!perl
will just work (TM) and takes the one found first in $PATH
Ohhhhhh, such idylle
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