env bug ?

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 01:13:14AM +0200, Peter L. Peres wrote:
> I seem to have a problem with env: a file that starts with:
> 
> 	#!/usr/bin/env echo foo
> 
> and is set +x and executes, will print:
> 
> 	/usr/bin/env: echo foo: No such file or directory

Do you have /bin/echo or do you only have the shell built in echo (bash
has echo built in so it doesn't use /bin/echo normally, while env does
use the real program from the PATH).

Quite likely you do not have an echo _command_ at all then.

/usr/bin/env echo foo, does work here.

Lennart Sorensen
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