Hi all, This is not a bash bug, but I am hoping the people on this list would find the question interesting...
I have found it useful to have a "script-relative" version of /usr/bin/env. Whereas env determines an interpreter's location based on PATH, this version would determine the interpreter's location based on the location of the script. Example - the shebang line: #!/usr/bin/relexec ../bin/perl would execute the interpreter ../bin/perl relative to the location of the script. The argv array of relexec will be: argv[0] = "/usr/bin/relexec" argv[1] = "../bin/perl" argv[2] = "/some/path/to/script" In this case relexec would exec /some/path/to/bin/perl with the arguments in argv starting from argv[2]. If anyone is interested I can explain why/how I use this. Questions: - Does something like this already exist? - I've noticed that the argument passed to the she-bang interpreter always seems to be an absolute path when commands are executed from a shell. Are there cases where that will not be true?
