From: Sven Mascheck (sven.mascheck@student.uni-ulm.de)                         
Subject: Re: Execing perl?                                                     
Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug                                                       
Date: 2001-07-11 21:06:15 PST                                                  

William Bloom <william.bloom@pegs.com> wrote:

> I'm almost led to believe that the Linux kernel is not applying 'word'
> processing to the remainder of the line after the first word (the command
> path) following #! during parsing.  Apparently, FreeBSD and Solaris apply
> 'word' processing to the whole line (using whitespace to delimit words).

 - Solaris/sparc does not, it delivers only the first "argument".
 - FreeBSD is the only one i know to deliver them "separated".
   (couldn't try on NetBSD yet)
 - Many systems deliver "all args in one" (which you saw also on Linux).
 - SunOS4 cuts off after 32 bytes, btw.

See more details for various unix flavours at the bottom of
<http://www.uni-ulm.de/~s_smasch/shebang/>

Sven