From: Ross Bamford <rossrt@...>
Date: 2006-11-25T18:49:18+09:00
Subject: Re: syntax error

On Sat, 2006-11-25 at 16:40 +0900, Une b辿vue wrote:
> something strange, if i run my script like that :
> 
> $ /opt/local/bin/ruby myscript.rb
> 
> no prob
> 
> the shebang in my script is :
> 
> #!/usr/bin/env ruby -w
> 
> which ruby give me the above ruby (under /opt)
> 
> then, running this script as :
> 
> $ ./myscript.rb i get an error on line 8 :
> ./wav2xml.rb: line 8: syntax error near unexpected token `('
> ./wav2xml.rb: line 8: `  fxml=file.gsub(/(.*)\.wav/,'\1.xml')'
> 
> the major difference is upon the "-w" option within the shebang however,
> if i delete this option i do have the same error.
> 

The error you're seeing isn't from Ruby - it's your shell trying to
interpret the ruby code. This problem has been encountered before, e.g:

	http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/76135

and FWIW it doesn't work on my Linux either. 

-- 
Ross Bamford - rosco@roscopeco.REMOVE.co.uk