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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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