OpenEuphoria

Re: linux exu she-bang

• Posted by Robert Craig <rds at RapidEuphoria.com> Dec 04, 2005
• 570 views

Kenneth Rhodes wrote:
> 
> Bernie Ryan wrote:
> > 
> > Bernie Ryan wrote:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Why can't you use the following she-bang in a Euphoria program ?
> 
> > 
> > What I have discovered may interest the rest of the users.
> > If a user places the follow she-bang in a program as long as exu
> >       is somewhere in the path your program will execute. 
> > 
> > #!/usr/bin/env exu
> > 
> > Note: The '/usr/bin/env' part is NOT the path of exu but is
> >        running a program called env which will find the path for exu.
> > 
> > Bernie
> >
> 
> Wouldn't this be a better choice for the automated she-bang feature
> which is implemented in the current shroud program? 

I'd rather let you do this yourself with an explicit #! line.
The location of env is not standardized 
across all Linux implementations, so this is not portable.

Here's a good reference on shebang lines:
http://homepages.cwi.nl/~aeb/std/shebang/

Regards,
   Rob Craig
   Rapid Deployment Software
   http://www.RapidEuphoria.com