[SLL] script interpreter bootstrap tricks

[Ted Stern]

On 01 Apr 2008 13:04:30 -0700, Brian Hatch wrote:
>
> Pretty near to 2008-04-01 11:49 -0700, Ted Stern uttered:
>
>> Everyone knows that you start a vanilla Bourne shell script with a
>> shebang:
>> 
>>          #!/bin/sh
>> 
>> But what do you do if you want to interpret the script with some tool,
>> like perl, python, tclsh or even bash, that is either not installed in
>> /bin or is not listed in /etc/shells?  And it may not be located in
>> the default path, so "#!/usr/bin/env <utility>" won't work.
>
>
> Sometimes there are too many problems you're working around, and need
> to fix the problem.
>
> Is adding the directory to your path s.t. #!/usr/bin/env really
> not an acceptable solution?

I'll have to petition the admins on the oddball system to allow it in
/etc/shells.

Ted
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