On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 11:02:24PM -0600, Tom Rodman wrote: >>I'm using cygwin (september 2003 build) and ActiveState perl. To connect >>ActiveState into cygwin I use a proxy /usr/local/bin/perl bourne shell >>script that essentially transalates the paths (cygpath -w) and delegates to >>the ActiveState perl.exe binary. Given the following foobar script: >> >>#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w >>print "foobar world\n"; > >The "#!" construct must always refer to a binary, never to another >script (to avoid loops?). I ran into the same issue. The UNIX >standard is what I just said, but earlier (and current?) cygwin >versions (wrongly) sorta supported a script. In 1.3.20 it works about >2 out of 5 times or so - if you try a similar approach on a UNIX box it >will fail *every* time.
Actually, no. It won't. The #! can refer to a script. Just tried it on Tru64 and on linux. The second script would have to be carefully constructed to recognize the 'print "foobar world\n"', though. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
