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

[Brian Beck]

After doing some research, I tend to think that C de-Avillez (hggdh2) is
correct, and that it is not the env command at fault here.

However, I do think the documentation should be extended to explain or
link to an explanation of the shebang line.

This is a document I found helpful:  http://www.in-
ulm.de/~mascheck/various/shebang/

Thanks,
Brian

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Title:
  Env fails on command line arguments

Status in “coreutils” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

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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