[tex-live] how robustly call awk script?

Sanjoy Mahajan sanjoy at mrao.cam.ac.uk
Sun Jan 14 18:07:13 CET 2007


> ...to answer myself, found a shell wrapper in Nelson Beebe's book. Sorry
> for the noise, thanks for help.

You probably found the same solution, but for the sake of the
archives, one method is this magic first line:

#!/usr/bin/env awk -f

If a system puts the env binary elsewhere, bad news!  But most maybe
all systems do the right thing.

-Sanjoy

`Not all those who wander are lost.' (J.R.R. Tolkien)


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