Re: Shebang - why are parameters not splitted on whitespace?

From: AmÃrico Wang
Date: Fri Dec 05 2008 - 20:05:06 EST


On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 5:29 PM, Geralt <usr.gentoo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I should have anticipated this objection :-). I'm aware that this is
> not consistent among Unix operating systems (you can find more about
> it here [1]), but I was specifically refering to linux in this case
> and why it handles the shebang arguments as one big string and not as
> single arguments for the application.

I can't think out any strong reasons, maybe only becasue Linux developers
prefer that approach.

Thanks.
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