Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!spool2.mu.edu!uwm.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!phil From: phil@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Phil Howard KA9WGN) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: portability of non-shell scripts Keywords: portability Message-ID: <1991Jan15.233523.18150@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 15 Jan 91 23:35:23 GMT Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Lines: 15 When I write a program in some interpretive language like a shell script, the full path name of the interpreter is used on the beginning "#!" line. However I am finding that different systems put these interpreters in different directories. Is there no consitency to this? Has anyone worked a general way to make these script programs more portable so that they will run w/o having to have the user do editing on them? Examples of the interpreters include perl and various flavors of awk. The sh/csh/ksh shell interpreters so far always seem to be in /bin. -- --Phil Howard, KA9WGN-- | Individual CHOICE is fundamental to a free society | no matter what the particular issue is all about.