[m-rev.] diff: Fix problems with check.pl when using remote CVS.

[Paul Bone]

On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 04:19:11PM +1100, Zoltan Somogyi wrote:
> On 11-Feb-2009, Paul Bone <pbone at csse.unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
> > sh still didn't work when I wrote it like this.  I've moved to
> > /usr/bin/env.  I've also learnt that some systems don't (correctly)
> > interpret more than one argument on the #! line.
> 
> It is the other way around. Every system correctly handles one argument,
> but few handle more, because it was not originally required.

That's what I was trying to say.

> >     #!/usr/bin/env perl -w 
> 
> The right solution is to use just #!/bin/sh, and then invoke perl
> IN THE BODY OF THE SHELL SCRIPT.

Ok, I've seen examples of where we do this, I'll copy one of them.


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