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From: merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal L. Schwartz)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: Starting a perl script
Message-ID: <1991Mar21.175643.21515@iwarp.intel.com>
Date: 21 Mar 91 17:56:43 GMT
Article-I.D.: iwarp.1991Mar21.175643.21515
References: <224@willow.MV.COM>
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Reply-To: merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal L. Schwartz)
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In-Reply-To: shawn@willow.MV.COM (Shawn M. Rogers)

In article <224@willow.MV.COM>, shawn@willow (Shawn M. Rogers) writes:
| According to the nutshell handbook on perl, a way around this is
| by replacing the "#!" line with the following:
| 
| eval '/usr/bin/perl -S $0 ${1+"$@"}'
| 	if 0;
| [perl script here....]

Missing an "exec" in there.  It's wrong on page 5, although it's correct
on page 216.  Try:

eval 'exec /usr/bin/perl -S $0 ${1+"$@"}'
	if 0;
[perl script here....]

The typo is already noted on the Perl 4.0 manpage.  (Read the *fine*
manpage. :-)

@a = (Just,another,Perl,"hacker,"); print "@a";
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