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I already stumbled over #!/usr/bin/env bash on numerous occasions and never questioned it. Now, I'm wondering what the purpose of wrapping the shell interpreter in an env command, i.e. why not just write #!/bin/bash, #!/bin/sh or whatever?

Kalle Richter
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I think this became popular because of python.

With this you can do

#!/usr/bin/env python3

for example and be quite sure env will find the right version and location for the executable.

Then this migrated to other shells because it seems like a good practice to always do even if you know where that particular shell is.

mikst
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