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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.There's stuff above here
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