On 23-Dec-2005, Frank Küster wrote: > Ben Finney <ben@benfinney.id.au> wrote: > > A shebang line is more than documentation: it is a strong > > indication that the script will be executable from the command > > line. To have that expectation not be matched by the file's > > permission mode is a recipe for confusion. > > The fact that the script is not in the path isn't enough for you > here? There are many executables, that I can invoke from the command line by typing their explicit location, that are not in the default executable path on a Debian system. > And don't you think that anyone who knows that a shebang lines > indicates executability from the command line would easily solve the > problem of a "permission denied"? The confusion I refer to is not "how do I fix this?" but rather "why is there a mismatch, and what is the intended behaviour?" That there is a mismatch at all is the confusion. -- \ "We must become the change we want to see." -- Mahatma Gandhi | `\ | _o__) | Ben Finney <ben@benfinney.id.au>
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