Re: Explicit interpreter paths considered harmful

[Eric Blake]

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According to Jim Meyering on 10/30/2009 6:29 AM:
>>>>> +eval '(exit $?0)' && eval 'exec perl -wS "$0" ${1+"$@"}'
>>>>> +  & eval 'exec /usr/bin/perl -wS "$0" $argv:q'
>> shouldn't that be perl, rather than /usr/bin/perl?
> 
> I could not arrange for that 2nd eval line to make a difference,
> so figured it'd be best to leave it as is.

Did you try: tcsh ./script?  I'm wondering if that second eval is catering
to users who run SHELL=tcsh, since the script no longer has a shebang, and
tcsh has different rules on how to attempt scripts that lack a shebang.

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