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Re: /bin/perl vs. /usr/bin/perl



On 1 Nov 2014 15:30, Martin Read <zen75502@zen.co.uk> wrote:
>
> On 01/11/14 14:52, lee wrote: 
> > what's the proposed Debian way to deal with a different location of the 
> > 'perl' executable? 
>
> #! /usr/bin/env perl

The trouble with this is perl -w doesn't work.

> ... but I thought that on Fedora, /bin was turned into a symlink to 
> /usr/bin in F17, so unless you've got some pre-F17 Fedora systems to 
> care about, /usr/bin/perl should be fine on Fedora.

I think you're right, /usr/bin/perl should work just about everywhere.

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