[Tutor] shebang question

[shawn bright]

well thanks for all the info, gents,  i appreciate it a lot !
sk

On 11/26/06, زياد بن عبدالعزيز الباتلي <zamb at saudi.net.sa> wrote:
>
> "john maclean" <jayeola at gmail.com> On Sun, 26 Nov 2006 01:34:28 +0000
> wrote:
> > From what I can tell/remember, the first works in the *nix environment
> > if python is in your $PATH, ...
> Actually, no.  The first will try to feed the script to the executable
> "/usr/bin/python".  If that doesn't exist (or is not executable) it'll
> fail.
>
> > ...the latter will find python "somehere" on your system by looking at
> > wher the executables should be.
> True, assuming there's "/usr/bin/env" on your system (and is executable)
> and that "python" is found in your "$PATH" (and is executable).
>
>
> The problem is that Python is not installed in the same place on all
> OSes!  Some will install it under "/usr/local", others under "/opt".
>
> The idea of "/usr/bin/env" is that it's always installed there (or it
> should be!).  So, you don't need to figure out where is python (or perl,
> ruby, make, sed, awk, or any other executable that "feeds" on
> scripts/text files) installed as long as it's in your "$PATH".
>
> (Of course, "env" have other uses.  As long as I can tell, this is not
> the intended use of "env".  See "info env" for more information, or
> if you don't have "info" see the manual.)
>
> Ziyad.
>
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