Re: Path to perl

[Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.org>]

On 2011-01-11 11:50:22 -0800, Jeroen Demeyer wrote:
> An even better solution might be using #!/usr/bin/env perl, which does
> not assume a fixed location for perl (useful for binary distributions).

or if the user (without root access) installs a version in his home dir.

>  Unfortunately, with "/usr/bin/env perl" you can't add the -w flag to perl.

How about:

#!/bin/sh
eval 'exec perl -w -S $0 ${1+"$@"}'
    if $running_under_some_shell;

Even without -w, this may even be better for the few systems without
/usr/bin/env.

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