Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (1578 mails)

[Joachim Schrod <jschrod@xxxxxxx>]

Ruediger Meier wrote:
> On Thursday 24 November 2011, Michal Kubeček wrote:
> > On Wednesday 23 of November 2011 19:51EN, Greg KH wrote:
> > > As a proposal for 12.2, I would like to implement the move of all
> > > binaries to /usr/ like is being done at the moment in Fedora.
> >
> > It's a bit surprising but after thinking about it, I must say I like
> > the idea. At least I won't have to check whether the interpreter is
> > in /bin or /usr/bin when writing scripts...
>
> Except that you should still use for example /bin/bash regardless 
> whether it's only a link to /usr/bin/ if you want to be compatible with 
> most other systems.

For portable scripts it's better to use #!/usr/bin/env bash.
Then it runs on FreeBSD, too. (There bash is in /usr/bin.)
The same goes for Perl, et.al.

This reminds me of an old quote of Larry Wall:

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Drew Mills writes:
: A contest to see who could write the most useful script that
: could actually be used in the most languages *as is* [...]

I've written some scripts that work in 582 different languages,
all of them named sh.
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You need to be old enough to have seen old Perl's Configure script
that cared for Eunice to understand that quote, though... ;-)

        Joachim

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Joachim Schrod                          Email: jschrod@xxxxxxx
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