Re: Why /usr/bin/env lua?

[Elias Barrionovo <elias.tandel@...>]

On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 6:14 PM, Rena <hyperhacker@gmail.com> wrote:
> I see a lot of Lua scripts beginning with:
> #!/usr/bin/env lua
>
> but what's the reason for invoking 'env' and using an absolute path?
>
> --
> Sent from my Game Boy.


Because you don't know if lua is in /bin, /usr/bin, /usr/local/bin,
/home/username/work/totally-not-porn/im-serious/bin/, etc. but env is
usually in /usr/bin and as long as $PATH is right, it doesn't matter
where lua is.

I'm not saying that env *must* be in /usr/bin, but I think it's more
probable for env to be there than lua.

-- 
NI!

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