Running a phar without .phar extension

I'm shipping a new side project as .phar file, php-sqllint.phar. ​

The phar stub has a shebang line so that I can call it without explicitly running PHP: ​

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When making the file executable with chmod +x, you can simply execute it: ​

$ ./php-sqllint.phar --version
./php-sqllint.phar version 0.0.2.​

No extension​

Then I wanted to get rid of the .phar extension, because ​

$ ./php-sqllint file.sql​

reads nicer than ​

$ ./php-sqllint.phar file.sql​

Simply renaming the phar file resulted in an error: ​

PHP Warning: require(phar:///usr/bin/php-sqllint/bin/phar-php-sqllint.php): failed to open stream: phar error: invalid url or non-existent phar "phar:///usr/bin/php-sqllint/bin/phar-php-sqllint.php" in /usr/bin/php-sqllint on line 15 ​

I found the solution to this problem in phpunit bug #734 : Use Phar::mapPhar() in the stub and include the following code with phar://$alias: ​

#!/usr/bin/env php
<?php
Phar::mapPhar('php-sqllint.phar');
require 'phar://php-sqllint.phar/bin/phar-php-sqllint.php';
?>

You have to use the same alias name that was used to create the phar file. ​