UsrMove feature (was Re: FESCo meeting minutes for 2011-10-24)

Ralf Corsepius rc040203 at freenet.de
Wed Oct 26 04:01:21 UTC 2011


On 10/25/2011 08:33 PM, Michał Piotrowski wrote:
> 2011/10/25 Chris Adams<cmadams at hiwaay.net>:
>> Once upon a time, Michał Piotrowski<mkkp4x4 at gmail.com>  said:
>>> I created feature page
>>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/F18MorePortableInterpreters
>>
>> I strongly object to this "feature".  /bin/sh is a Unix standard back to
>> IIRC around 7th Edition, and there is NO good reason to break it.  The
>> "#!/usr/bin/env foo" suggested replacement has always been a hack to
>> work around broken systems, not something suggested for all scripts.
>
> What is wrong with
> #!/usr/bin/env interpreter
> from technical POV?

Install a different shell as ~/bin/sh and prepend ~/bin to your $PATH 
and you will see.

Ralf




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