Thanks, Jark looks awesome for this. Things like this should be more
discoverable. I googled "shebang clojure" for 10 minutes before
posting here and didn't come up with anything.

On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 1:30 PM, Ambrose Bonnaire-Sergeant
<abonnaireserge...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 1:28 AM, Mike Meyer <m...@mired.org> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, 20 Apr 2011 10:16:05 -0700 (PDT)
>> David Jacobs <develo...@allthingsprogress.com> wrote:
>>
>> > What's the status on this? One of the reasons I don't use Clojure
>> > everyday,
>> > much as I like it, is that I want it to integrate seamlessly with Unix
>> > for
>> > scripting.
>>
>> Um, I've been using it with shebang scripts for a while now. You've
>> got to do the usual interpreted interpreter double-script dance,
>> though:
>>
>> 1) Write a shell script that launches java running the clojure main
>> with all your favorite libraries somewhere on CLASSPATH.
>>
>> 2) Start your scripts with "#!/usr/bin/env scriptname" where
>> scriptname is the clojure script you wrote in step 1.
>>
>> Performance pretty much sucks - starting the jvm is just slow. You can
>> solve that with nailgun (or something similar), which will let you use
>> the nailgun binary as the interpreter (i.e. "#!/usr/bin/env/clojure"
>> where clojure is a copy/symlink to the nailgun binary), but you have
>> to remember to start the nailgun server.
>>
>
> Jark uses a persistent JVM so it's very nice to use for this task.
> Ambrose
>
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