In article <4FBD898C-6E3E-11D8-8A65-000393CE35A6 / peirce-family.com>, Robert Peirce wrote: > in the first line of a script and it works fine. However, this doesn't=20= > > work: > > #! /usr/bin/env ruby <snip> > However, > > ruby hello > > works fine. What am I missing? What happens if you type "/usr/bin/env ruby --version" on the command line? Is it possible you've seen it work on other computers, but env isn't installed on this particular one? Joe