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</a></td></tr></table><h1>Executable scripts under Unix</h1>
You can use BeanShell for writing scripts as you would any other shell
under many Unixs:
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#!/usr/java/bin/java bsh.Interpreter
print("foo");
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However some flavors of Unix are more picky about what they will allow
as a shell program. For those you can use the following hack to make
your BeanShell scripts executable.
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#!/bin/sh
# The following hack allows java to reside anywhere in the PATH.
//bin/true; exec java bsh.Interpreter "$0" "$@"
print("foo");
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The above trick presumes that /bin/true exists on your system and that //bin is
the same as /bin. The // causes BeanShell to ignore the line.
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The above has been tested on Solaris. It does not seem to work under Cygwin.
<h3>OSX</h3>
For OSX the path is a bit different:
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#!/Library/Java/home/bin/java bsh.Interpreter
print("foo");
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On OSX /usr/bin/java is itself a shell script, which unfortunately won't
work out-of-the-box.
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