From: Ara.T.Howard@...
Date: 2004-10-06T00:04:53+09:00
Subject: Re: env question

On Tue, 5 Oct 2004, Robert Klemme wrote:

> Sure enough.  But what's the advantage over
>
>    #!ruby
>
> Are there shells that don't allow this?


   jib:~ > for shell in tcsh csh sh bash ksh;do echo $shell; $shell -c ./a.rb;done
   tcsh
   ./a.rb: Command not found.
   csh
   ./a.rb: Command not found.
   sh
   sh: ./a.rb: ruby: bad interpreter: No such file or directory
   bash
   bash: ./a.rb: ruby: bad interpreter: No such file or directory
   ksh
   ksh: ./a.rb: No such file or directory

does that work for you - if so what os/shell?


> Does env search not only $PATH but elsewhere?

AFAIK it searches only in $PATH.

cheers.


-a
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