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  48     dc:title="Shebang and script interpreters"
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  51     dc:description="Turns out that you cannot put a script as the interpreter for your #! line. It must be a binary. Also, many IT departments forced with supporting various Unix/Linux&apos;s often have a set of scripts that &quot;do the right thing(tm)&quot;..."
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  58                      <h2 class="date-header">September 14, 2012</h2>
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  61                         <h3 class="entry-header">Shebang and script interpreters</h3>
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  64                               <p>Turns out that you cannot put a script as the interpreter for your #! line. It must be a binary. Also, many IT departments forced with supporting various Unix/Linux's often have a set of scripts that "do the right thing(tm)" to set up an environment for the target architecture then execute the architecturally appropriate binary. I did this way back with /app server.</p>
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  66 <p>So what do you do when you are say writing an expect script and wish to use #!/app/expect? The trick is to use something like #!/usr/bin/env /app/expect. Most people are familiar with using env(1) to print out the environment and it turns out it does - if you don't give it any other parameter. But it's real main purpose is "run a program in a modified environment". So if you wish to use an interpreter that is a script use #!/usr/bin/env /path/to/script as your shebang line.</p>
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