fixes #3201

[Malix-Labs]

Description

fixes #3201

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[aednichols]

I think that for most mainstream configurations, this change will have no effect.

It will enable certain niche use cases, but also risks breaking an unknown number of cases that work fine now.

All in all, I'm not sure the juice is worth the squeeze.

[Malix-Labs]

This is intended to make it more portable

Currently, cromwell couldn't work on NixOS or Guix, for example, see #3201

[aednichols]

For what it's worth, Cromwell unofficially "supports" (as in people use it and don't seem to have major issues) macOS, Ubuntu, and the RHEL family of OSes.

[Malix-Labs]

This small change could make it portable on any esoteric distribution / container

also risks breaking an unknown number of cases that work fine now

Not using env is more "risky" in term of portability, as it would be less portable

This is due to unix requirements