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From: tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Force script to use /bin/sh?
Message-ID: <15178@bfmny0.UU.NET>
Date: 16 Feb 90 16:04:35 GMT
Reply-To: tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff)
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OK all you Perl gurus and hackers out there.  I need a trick statement
that does the REVERSE of the 'nih' front end:

	eval "exec /usr/bin/perl -S $0 $*"
		if $running_under_some_shell;

This forces Perl, sh and Csh to feed the script to Perl.  I need something
to force Perl, sh and Csh to feed the script to sh!

I have thought about it some, but it's hard to think of a syntax that
fools sh and Perl like the above.

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I might add in passing that Perl ought to respect the #! notation itself,
and pass scripts to the chosen interpreter (if it doesn't end in 'perl').

*** THIS WOULD MAKE A NICE THING TO ADD IN PATCH 9 LARRY ***

hee hee

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