On Fri, Feb 08, 2019 at 04:56:12PM -0500, pmkellly@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > looks like a shebang is a way to make hard path > reference to an executable like bash. Is this right or have I missed > something? You missed something. Samuel Sieb already replied with reference. You may use it like #!/usr/bin/env bash which will look for bash in your PATH and similar with other interpreters. > I thought people were trying to get hard coded paths out of their > code. Usually you DO NOT want to execute a program called 'bash' found somewhere instead of /bin/bash. A script writer does not control what will be found first in PATH. Besides in the above you need '#!/usr/bin/env' as kernel knows nothing about PATH. You can more often encounter '#!/usr/bin/env python' or something like that; this give more flexibility which 'python' to use with trade-offs involved. Michal _______________________________________________ test mailing list -- test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to test-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
