[Haskell-cafe] executable scripts?

Koji Nakahara yu- at div.club.ne.jp
Sat Oct 23 02:38:18 EDT 2004


On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 16:05:29 -0700
John Velman <velman at cox.net> wrote:
> One of the nice things about perl (for example) is that you can put
> together a script with #!/usr/local/perl (in bash for example) as the first
> line of a file and run it immediately.  I've used perl a lot this way with
> simple 'throw away' scripts to do special filtering on a file, or some
> other processing that I want to do one or a few times.  occasionally, a
> script like this will have a more permanant value to me, and I keep it
> around.
> 
> Is there some way to do something similar in with Haskell?   I've tried the
> most obvious (to me) test with Hugs and it doesn't work.

#!/usr/local/bin/runhugs 
will do the trick.  See hugs(1).  

Haskell does really good job for me where perl had been used!

--
Koji Nakahara


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