On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 07:38:21PM +0100, Peter J. Acklam wrote: >I use different computers where Perl is installed different >places, so I can't hardcode the location of perl in the shebang >line. Thus, I use env, which works great on all UNIXes I work on, >for instance > > #!/usr/bin/env perl -w > > print "This is Perl version $]\n"; > >but on Cygwin I get > > /usr/bin/env: perl -w: No such file or directory > >why does Cygwin look for the file "perl -w". No UNIX I have >worked on would parse the shebang line that way.
Because... we're mean. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/