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Michael Vanier <mvanier@bbb.caltech.edu> cited below with "MV" writes: MV> Is it possible to start up a guile script with /usr/bin/env? I tried this MV> but it didn't work on my system: MV> #!/usr/bin/env guile -s MV> !# MV> ... MV> This prints out an error message, apparently because guile thinks that the MV> name of the file is a switch. Is there a workaround? Is this a bug or MV> just a missing feature? It's certainly easier to use env than to type a MV> long filename (not to mention more portable). It is highly unportable if you assume that an OS supports more than one argument with the `#!' feature. The only system which does it is AFAIK FreeBSD, some systems pass only the first argument, while other systems pass the remaining line after the first space as the first argument to the program. The only thing which would help Guile are hacks like Tcl's #! /bin/sh #\ exec wish $0 ${1+"$@"} BTW, do not write `#!/', always write `#! /' (including the whitespace). There are systems out there treating the first 4 bytes of an executable as a magic binary number. -- Ralph