Re: Using Emacs Lisp for script writing

[Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl>]

Tim X <timx@nospam.dev.null> writes:

>>> Works like a charm. I made it:
>>>     #!/usr/bin/env bash
>>
>> IMO, there's higher probability that /bin/bash be present than /usr/bin/env.
>> And even higher probability that /bin/sh be present.
>>
>> Since you're not using any bash feature in the script, you could as
>> well go for the sure case, and use #!/bin/sh.
>
> I second this. If I remember correctly, to be posix compliant, you must
> have  sh, but you don't have to have bash or env.

I have to look into that. I know that bash is not always there -I have
worked on a Tru-64 system, which did not have it-, I also understood
that /usr/bin/env should always be there -as a real file or a link- and
I had it once -I think on a BSD system- that the shell was in another
directory. But I 'always' work with bash, so it could be that /bin/sh is
always there. So lets just change it. And if there is a system where
there is not a /bin/sh lets hope that the administrator is willing to
make the link. Otherwise the script(s) have to be changed, but that is
no rocket science. ;-)

On my system the three calls still work. ;-)

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Cecil Westerhof
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