Re: How to detect bash?

[mwoehlke]

Paul Jarc wrote:
> mwoehlke <mwoehlke@tibco.com> wrote:
> > And since when does '#! /bin/bash' mean "use whatever 'bash' you
> > find in $PATH"? Silly me, I thought it meant "use '/bin/bash'".
>
> Dave did say "hash-bang", but he didn't say "#! /bin/bash".  Possibly
> he's thinking of "#!/usr/bin/env bash", which should do what you want.

Ah! See, I've never seen that trick. :-)
Thanks. Although it still relies on /usr/bin/env, which is *more* likely 
to be there than any permutation of bash, but I'd still be a little 
paranoid counting on it, at least until I've verified it. :-)

Actually, I must admit there is a laziness aspect; to shebang, I would 
have to change about a dozen scripts, whereas the current test is in one 
file that all others source. :-)

--
Matthew
Will your shell have salvation? Only if it's Bourne Again.