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Re:A surprise with how ' ' handles its program argument in p... by anotherhue on Thursday November 20, 2025 @12:10AM (#45989201)
env bash is all well and good for normies, but if you're already on NixOS did you know you can have nix-shell be your interpreter and back flip into any reproducible interpreted environment you like?

https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Nix-shell_shebang

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Re:A surprise with how ' ' handles its program argument in p... by SAI_Peregrinus on Thursday November 20, 2025 @11:45AM (#45994640)
Or any other system with Nix installed. I use this at work to provide scripts with all their dependencies specified that work across any Linux distro & MacOS. First execution is slow since it has to fetch everything, but after that it's fast and just works.
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