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From: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: Best of both worlds?
Message-ID: <10019@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Date: 18 Oct 90 22:30:23 GMT
References: <8b7GHJu00Vp6M3kosR@andrew.cmu.edu>
Reply-To: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
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In article <8b7GHJu00Vp6M3kosR@andrew.cmu.edu> rm55+@andrew.cmu.edu (Rudolph T. Maceyko) writes:
: Is it possible to make the same PERL script work on two machines that
: keep PERL in different places without having to manually include perl
: before each command execution?

Yes, but you have to use the following hack, or something similar

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

Note that the exec depends on your PATH.  The comment on the first line
tells perl not to start up /bin/sh, which would be counterproductive.

Larry