[task #15682] maneage-lint: check for host system shebang lines in executable scripts

[Boud Roukema]

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                 Summary: maneage-lint: check for host system shebang lines in
executable scripts
                 Project: Reproducible paper template
            Submitted by: boud
            Submitted on: Tue 09 Jun 2020 01:41:57 AM UTC
         Should Start On: Tue 09 Jun 2020 12:00:00 AM UTC
   Should be Finished on: Tue 09 Jun 2020 12:00:00 AM UTC
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                Priority: 5 - Normal
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Details:

I suspect that both a lot of science-level software and some
system-level software uses scripts that have _#!/bin/bash_ or 
_#!/bin/sh_ or _#!/usr/bin/perl -w_ or _#!/usr/bin/env python_ 
in their shebang <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/shebang> lines.

We could probably create a checklist _lint_ type script to help
people find these and consider switching to the _maneage_ 
versions rather than the host versions. This would increase
the probability of both portability and long-term reproducibility.

The lint script should also add various other tests that we
find are useful. For the moment, this could be an example to
find some of these shebang scripts:


for i in $(file .build/software/installed/bin/*|grep script |awk '{print $1}'
|tr -d ':'); do printf "${i} ::: " ; head -n1 $i ; done







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