Script interpreter locations

Jakob 'sparky' Kaivo jake at nodomainname.net
Mon Mar 22 10:48:07 PST 1999


Should there be a standard place to put script interpreters (e.g. perl,
tcl, python)? There is a thread on the kernel mailing list about a patch
to support putting things like:

#!perl

instead of the full path to perl in scripts, but it really shouldn't be
handled in the kernel. Perhaps something should be specified like:

If the script interpreter foo is provided, the location of the interpreter
will be /usr/bin/foo.

Or something similar, so that scripts that depend on an interpreter not
part of the base, there is still a standard place for it.

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