shebang in cross platform scripts

[Bill Mill]

On Apr 6, 2005 9:37 AM, rbt <rbt at athop1.ath.vt.edu> wrote:
> 
> Haven't tested this on Windows yet... thought I'd ask here:
> 
> Does the line below have any negative impact on Windows machines? I
> develop and test mostly on Unix, but my scripts are often used on Win
> systems too.
> 
> #!/usr/bin/env python

What the others have said already is true, that it will be ignored on
windows, with one caveat. The shebang is interpreted by Apache if your
script is a CGI script. So, if your script is a CGI, you will need to
have a windows version and a nix version.

Peace
Bill Mill
bill.mill at gmail.com