On Thursday, August 15, 2002, at 07:53 AM, drieux wrote: > This approach also saves on the problem of using scripts that > were originally rigged with > > #!/usr/bin/perl > #!/usr/local/bin/perl >
Python programmers use this a lot, but it works equally well with Perl: #!/usr/bin/env perl It assumes that /usr/bin/env is more likely to be found in that place than perl. Of course it's /bin/env on linux, something else on OSX ,etc.etc. Alex Rice, Software Developer Architectural Research Consultants, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]