#!/usr/bin/env

[Matej Cepl]

Tom Metro wrote:
> What I wanted to know was what makes it portable. Apparently it is due
> to env(1) being ubiquitous and consistently having that path searching
> side effect in the various implementations.

Have you ever met perl script with #!/usr/local/bin/perl shebang path?

Matej

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