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Hey Kid, I'ma Interpreter!! Stop all the static interpreter referenci'n!
Please stop using '/bin/bash'!
Posted on Mon, 17 Mar 2014 13:00:00 MDT by Aaron Bieber
If you have ever explicitly set the path of an interpreter at the top of a script.. This post is about you.
STOP IT!
Not every system has binaries in the same location!
#!/bin/bash
The above might seem awesome, and it might be tempting to use it, but if you do, and your project is something that I am interested in, you will receive a pull request (here are some examples) to change it to:
#!/usr/bin/env bash
On OpenBSD, bash is not in base, meaning it is not installed in /bin or even /usr/bin. It gets plopped right into /usr/local/bin. Almost all users will have /usr/local/bin set in their PATH variable, so use the above and do not be a turdburgler!