Build failure is unrelated (Python format). Requesting a maintainer to trigger it again.

@brandonkal I restarted CI but it failed at the same point, so I don't think it's unrelated. Can you run format.py locally?

My bad. The fact python was calling Prettier threw me off. It should pass now.

@piscisaureus Note that it is still preferrable to not have a semicolon there.
But at least this works in more places than before.

Some shells will print "./catj.ts: 2: ./catj.ts: //: Permission denied" before executing the script.
There is no good way to add a prettier-ignore there either because not all shells accept "//" comments.

CC @nayeemrmn I remember you were updating shebangs some time ago. Can you take a look?

Yeah, the env -S solution is for GNU coreutils 8.30+ or something. But only the relatively newer versions of distros have this. The change here I believe is StackOverflow's solution for full compatibility. I probably should have done this in the first place.

Thanks for the patch but sorry this is too weird. We need another solution.

@ry It is weird but it is the only current solution that is portable especially as -S isn't universally available for the env command.

In most environments only one argument can be passed to a program by env.
Another solution is to introduce another deno flag -x https://perldoc.perl.org/perlrun.html#*-x*.

Then the shebang could look like this:

#!/usr/bin/env deno -x
// deno run --reload --allow-run "$0" "$@"

I'd rather change how we parse args so we can support all types of env

@ry So you would say the "-x" solution is good?

@brandonkal anything is better than exposing the hack in this patch : )

Okay. I'll look to add -x if I find the spare cycles.

#!/usr/bin/env deno -x

Which platforms does this work on? The Linux limitation is one interpreter /usr/bin/env one arg to that interpreter "deno -x" and then the script name is the next arg.

I tried this and it calls /usr/bin/env "deno -x" <script>, which is wrong.

Oh yes of course. So it looks like this will remain unsolved.