On Fri, 8 Jun 2001, Rajanikanth Dandamudi wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I had seen some of the perl files starting with the
> line :
>
> eval 'exec perl $0 -S ${1+"$@"}'
>
> and here is where I got the doubt.
MakeMaker usually inserts the line into perl executables when they are
installed. On some systems, perl scripts _might_ be evaluated by sh
derivatives, and if that's the case, that line will try to pass control
from the sh interpreter to the perl interpreter.
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