[Bug 1141989] Re: Env fails on command line arguments

[Brian Beck]

This is an important issue.  It make applications less portable, and
makes it more difficult to get applications running on a Linux server.
For example, I have a fairly large Perl application that I would like to
port from Macintosh OS X  to Ubuntu Server.  Each script begins with:

#!/usr/bin/env perl -w

So on Ubuntu, I get:  /usr/bin/env: perl -w: No such file or directory

Package: coreutils
Essential: yes
Status: install ok installed
Priority: required                                                                                                                                                                                                           
Section: utils                                                                                                                                                                                                               
Installed-Size: 5920                                                                                                                                                                                                         
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss at lists.ubuntu.com>                                                                                                                                                        
Architecture: amd64                                                                                                                                                                                                          
Multi-Arch: foreign                                                                                                                                                                                                          
Version: 8.20-3ubuntu5                                                                                                                                                                                                       
Replaces: mktemp, timeout                                                                                                                                                                                                    
Depends: dpkg (>= 1.15.4) | install-info                                                                                                                                                                                     
Pre-Depends: libacl1 (>= 2.2.51-8), libattr1 (>= 1:2.4.46-8), libc6 (>= 2.15), libselinux1 (>= 1.32)                                                                                                                         
Conflicts: timeout

Let me know if there's anything I can do to help out.

Cheers,
Brian

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Title:
  Env fails on command line arguments

Status in “coreutils” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  This simple script works fine with env:

  #!/usr/bin/env python3
  print('Works')

  However if you add a command line argument to the Python 3 executable
  it fails:

  #!/usr/bin/env python3 -tt
  print('Does not work.')

  The error message printed is this:

  /usr/bin/env: python3 -tt: No such file or directory

  This exact same piece of code does work on OSX. It should work on
  Linux too, as the man page says that you can pass arguments to the
  command:

  SYNOPSIS
         env [OPTION]... [-] [NAME=VALUE]... [COMMAND [ARG]...]

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
  Package: coreutils 8.13-3.2ubuntu2.1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-25.39-generic 3.5.7.4
  Uname: Linux 3.5.0-25-generic i686
  ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu10
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Sun Mar  3 13:50:47 2013
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-09-01 (182 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release i386 (20120817.3)
  MarkForUpload: True
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=xterm
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: coreutils
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-10-24 (129 days ago)

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