Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:04:22 -0800 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Doug Poland <doug@polands.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Portability of shell scripts from other *nixes Message-ID: <28F1F479-EA39-4841-AE54-76F0E512C02B@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <ac1be76b3dd10516e61861ae253b793f.squirrel@email.polands.org> References: <ac1be76b3dd10516e61861ae253b793f.squirrel@email.polands.org>
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On Jan 25, 2012, at 2:08 PM, Doug Poland wrote: > The issue I'm having is the shebang line of the scripts in OS X is > #!/bin/sh, and it turns out that is really an instance of bash, and > the code contains some bashisms. On FreeBSD I have bash in > /usr/local/bin/bash. > > Is there an "easy/best" way to have a single shebang that works on > both OS's? I'd rather not change FreeBSD's bourne shell to bash with > any symlinking of /usr/local/bin/bash to /bin/sh. Try using something like: #!/usr/bin/env bash (If the shell scripts are something written by Apple rather than by third-parties, please also consider filing a bug report.) Regards, -- -Chuck
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