> I especially hate it when people shove #!/bin/bash as a shebang It really ought to be `#!/usr/bin/env bash` , if you're writing a bash script. That'll solve

> I especially hate it when people shove #!/bin/bash as a shebang It really ought to be `#!/usr/bin/env bash` , if you're writing a bash script. That'll solve the location problem. Otherwise, if it's a bash script, you can't get around needing bash on your system (although a great many bash scripts are actually "sh" shell scripts that just happen to specify bash because people are used to that sort of thing).