[Openmcl-devel] CCL startup script (ccl & ccl64) is not Bourne Shell compatible

[Tim Bradshaw]

On 13 Oct 2009, at 16:05, Daniel Weinreb wrote:

> Pardon me for the Linux-newbie question, but:
> what does "/usr/bin/env" do if you don't give
> it any options?  The man page sort of makes it
> look like a no-op if you don't say -i or NAME=VALUE.
> Thanks.

It finds its argument in PATH and execs it.  So essentially it's a  
mechanism for not having to specify a phase-of-the-moon-dependent path  
for the interpreter: so long as env stays in a standard place, you can  
use it to find utilities which may not be in standard places but are  
in the path.

So doing this means that you can write scripts which are (more)  
portable, even if the actual interpreter may not live in a standard  
place.