From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
To: "Américo Wang" <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Cc: Geralt <usr.gentoo@googlemail.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Shebang - why are parameters not splitted on whitespace?
Date: Sat, 06 Dec 2008 00:41:23 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <10860.1228542083@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 06 Dec 2008 01:04:52 GMT." <2375c9f90812051704oa80cafeif17909e332178d6e@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sat, 06 Dec 2008 01:04:52 GMT, Américo Wang said:
> On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 5:29 PM, Geralt <usr.gentoo@googlemail.com> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I should have anticipated this objection :-). I'm aware that this is
> > not consistent among Unix operating systems (you can find more about
> > it here [1]), but I was specifically refering to linux in this case
> > and why it handles the shebang arguments as one big string and not as
> > single arguments for the application.
>
> I can't think out any strong reasons, maybe only becasue Linux developers
> prefer that approach.
And of course, "whitespace" is a somewhat fungible concept. 'man bash'
and read about $IFS.
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-03 15:14 Geralt
2008-12-03 15:56 ` Américo Wang
[not found] ` <fbdd0e50812030929q65d2e805y49094dd67209be7e@mail.gmail.com>
2008-12-03 17:29 ` Geralt
2008-12-06 1:04 ` Américo Wang
2008-12-06 5:41 ` Valdis.Kletnieks [this message]
2008-12-06 12:02 ` Geralt
2008-12-06 21:14 ` Aaron Cohen
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