Re: bash scripts in Guix question

[Olivier Dion via <help-guix@gnu.org>]

On Wed, 05 Oct 2022, Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Olivier Dion <olivier.dion@polymtl.ca> writes:
>
> [...]
>
>>> I prefer the "#!/usr/bin/env bash" shebang; /usr/bin/env is available on
>>> FHS distribution, and on Guix System, for convenience.  You can use if
>>> for any interpreted script, such as Guile, Python, Perl, etc.
>>
>> Only if coreutils is in the profile that would work yes.
>
> coreutils doesn't need to be in the profile since /usr/bin/env is linked
> to (file-append coreutils "bin/env"); see in the value of %base-services
> in (gnu services base), which contains:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> (service special-files-service-type
>                  `(("/bin/sh" ,(file-append bash "/bin/sh"))
>                    ("/usr/bin/env" ,(file-append coreutils "/bin/env"))))
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Oh interesting I did not know that.  Thank you!

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