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From: merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Patch 9 from outer space (was Re: Force script to use /bin/sh?)
Message-ID: <1990Feb18.190513.464@iwarp.intel.com>
Date: 18 Feb 90 19:05:13 GMT
References: <15178@bfmny0.UU.NET> <7105@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
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In-Reply-To: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)

In article <7105@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>, lwall@jpl-devvax (Larry Wall) writes:
| P.S. Here's the scoop: if argv[0] contains "perl", and #!WHATEVER doesn't
| contain "perl", it will invoke WHATEVER for you.  It will even throw
| in the first argument after WHATEVER like it's supposed to.  Note that
| it recognizes "perl" anywhere in the WHATEVER, not just at the end.

So if I go...

perl <<EOF
#!/some/interpreter foo bar bletch long-args more-long-args
stuff for some interpreter
EOF

...I can get by the stupid 32 char two arg restriction in the kernel?
Nifty.  S'pose that's one way.  'course, it means invoking Perl first
(and even a shell, given this!).  Durn.

And just how *large* is patch9 up to now?  Must I reserve another 4Meg
to hold the sources (or patches)?

print pack('C25', reverse unpack('C25', ',rekcah lreP rehtona tsuJ'));
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