env bug ?

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 09:48:09PM +0200, Peter L. Peres wrote:
[snip]
> Would a env replacement that splits its second argument on spaces and 
> then execve's the first of those words with the rest as arguments, be 
> useful ?

It might, but it should also keep an eye out for quotes so you could do:
#!/usr/bin/smartenv dosomething "This is my dumb filename" PATH=/bin:/usr/bin

Of course you still need to deal with the fact the filename gets passed
as the last argument, which still makes this seem like not the place to
use env.  #! is meant for running scripts with the correct interpreter,
and nothing else.

Lennart Sorensen
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