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dwheeler on May 14, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Safe ways to do things in bash

POSIX doesn't include shebang (#!) at all. It should, but it currently doesn't.

jwilk on May 14, 2018 | [–]

It doesn't include /usr/bin/ either. The "env" utility could be somewhere else.

oblio on May 14, 2018 | [–]

> currently doesn’t

Yeah, we should be gentle with POSIX, it’s only 30 years young :)

xyzzyz on May 14, 2018 | [–]

Newest revision is from 2017, so they certainly had time to fix that, if they consider it a problem.

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