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From: tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: Patch 9 from outer space (was Re: Force script to use /bin/sh?)
Message-ID: <15187@bfmny0.UU.NET>
Date: 18 Feb 90 23:58:06 GMT
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Reply-To: tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff)
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In case anyone was wondering WHY I wanted a way to force Perl to pass
things on to /bin/sh or whatever -- I am planning to define Perl as the
interpreter of choice in a few environments like Chip Salzenberg's Deliver
program.  Many of my delivery scripts are naturals for Perl, and the
rewrite is under way.  But why waste the time loading /bin/sh first
and then changing to Perl?  Etcetera.

Actually we could generalize this even further, like using it in vi(1),
if Perl respected the "-c" switch like SH and CSH.

	perl -c "myscript.pl arg1 arg2..."

should behave just like

	perl myscript.pl arg1 arg2...

...anyway I think I hear my Mommy calling :-) so I won't say anything about
Patch 9 >MMMMPPPHH!<