Excerpts from Jeff King's message of Fri Feb 03 16:55:07 -0500 2012: > > write_script () { > > case "$#" in > > 1) case "$1" in > > *.perl | *.pl) echo "#!$PERL_PATH" ;; > > *) echo "#!$SHELL_PATH" ;; > > esac > > 2) echo "#!$2" ;; > > *) BUG ;; > > esac >"$1" && > > cat >>"$1" && > > chmod +x "$1" > > } > > > > Nice. I was going to suggest a wrapper like "write_sh_script" so you > didn't have to spell out $SHELL_PATH, but I think the auto-detection > makes sense (and falling back to shell makes even more sense, as that > covers 99% of the cases anyway). This looks like a very nice, general purpose, solution to the problem. Thanks -Ben -- Ben Walton Systems Programmer - CHASS University of Toronto C:416.407.5610 | W:416.978.4302 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html