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Subject:	bash bad interpreter - a new twist!
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>I'm using cygwin (september 2003 build) and ActiveState perl.  To connect 
>ActiveState into cygwin I use a proxy /usr/local/bin/perl bourne shell 
>script that essentially transalates the paths (cygpath -w) and delegates to 
>the ActiveState perl.exe binary.  Given the following foobar script:
>
>#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w
>print "foobar world\n";

The "#!" construct must always refer to a binary,
never to another script (to avoid loops?).  I ran into the same issue.
The UNIX standard is what I just said, but earlier (and current?)
cygwin versions (wrongly) sorta supported a script.  In 1.3.20 it works
about 2 out of 5 times or so - if you try a similar approach on
a UNIX box it will fail *every* time.

Years back there was a cygwin tool called dbash.exe to support
what your trying to do. 

Try "man execve" on a UNIX box for more on the "#!" construct.

You just need to rethink your workaround..

I'm sure others can correct some of what I just said, but I believe
is mostly right ;->

--
Tom Rodman
pls run for my address:  
perl -e 'print unpack("u", "1\:6UP\,\$\!T\<F\]D\;6\%N\+F\-O\;0H\`");'


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