Re: [Sbcl-devel] shell-magic line at head of .fasl possible?

[Stas B. <sta...@gm...>]

Dorai Sitaram <ds...@ya...> writes:

> Is it possible to slap some sort of shell-magic line at the head of a .fasl file so that the file can be called as a Unix command?
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> Somewhat along the lines of 
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> ":"; exec sbcl --script $0 "$@"
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> which I find only works for  SBCL source (.lisp) files?
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> My best effort so far is to have a separate shell script, say filename, in the same directory as filename.fasl, that has the following contents
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> sbcl --noinform --load $0.fasl "$@"
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> I don't mind having a separate shell script, but this relies on the shell's ability to translate $0 to the appropriate full or relative pathname.  Only bash seems able to do this.  (Other shells do not include the dirname when determining $0, and I cannot control the shell choices of the people I hand the script to -- hence the question.)
>
You can also achieve this with binfmt_misc on Linux.

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With best regards, Stas.