Re: #!/Perl question
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On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Brian Servis wrote:
> *- On 2 Sep, Jonathan Markevich wrote about "Re: #!/Perl question"
> > On Fri, Sep 03, 1999 at 03:04:49AM +0800, Hans van den Boogert wrote:
> >> I'm trying to learn some Perl. I found an on-line book which is Unix
> >> biased, but the scripts all start with #!/usr/local/bin/perl (which makes
> >> sense if you have compiled and installed it yourself). However, on my
> >> Debian system Perl was of course put in /usr/bin/perl. So how can I write a
> >> Perl script that be executed on a variety of systems (Unix/Linux/DOS)??
> >
> > Personally, I would count on /usr/bin/perl. It seems unusual to take such
> > an important key to lots of system-based scripts and keep it local. Check
> > out this:
>
> I think(i.e. just my local experience) many of the commercial Unix's put
> everything under /usr/local that is not part of the core OS. Unlike
> Linux distributions most commercial Unix's don't come with all the apps
> pre-packaged.
One solution would be to write a makefile that detects the location of the
perl binary and then prepends the proper shebang line to the beginning of
your perl programs.
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