From: "Omar Polo" <op@omarpolo.com>
Subject: Re: Support for /usr/bin/env -S (kind of)
To: Matthias Kilian <kili@outback.escape.de>
Cc: tech@openbsd.org
Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2025 08:32:13 +0200

Matthias Kilian <kili@outback.escape.de> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Fri, Jul 18, 2025 at 06:23:45PM +0200, Manuel Giraud wrote:
> > For example, one could make the following silly script:
> > 
> > #!/usr/bin/env -S cat -b -e
> 
> In addition to what other people already said, that #!/usr/bin/env
> thing in general is an absolute antipattern IMHO.

no opinion on -S, but i'm curious about this, why do you think it's an
antipattern?

curious because i've used it a bit, it's handy for stuff like perl or
awk that may be at different paths (/bin vs /usr/bin vs /usr/local/bin
depending on the OS, while env is *generally* always at /usr/bin/env)