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		kirubakaran on April 16, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Better bash in 15 minutes [in addition to what clarry said] Habit of using /usr/bin/env becomes more important in other use-cases, such as invoking Python interpreter.

nnnnni on April 16, 2014 [–]

Exactly. I often use "#!/usr/bin/env python2" to specify python 2.x on my systems where python 3 is the default.

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