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So then how do you write cross-platform scripts? You can't even do "#!/usr/bin/env bash" since I'm assuming what you're saying means 'env' is in /usr/local/ as well, but on Linux systems it'll be in /usr/.

Broken! Can we please just pick one convention and stick with it? Oh, standards... so many to choose from.



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