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

[Valdis . Kletnieks]

On Sat, 06 Dec 2008 01:04:52 GMT, Américo Wang said:
> 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.

And of course, "whitespace" is a somewhat fungible concept.  'man bash'
and read about $IFS.

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