Hi ~wren,
you wrote...
> Sorry if this is off-topic, but I seem to recall
> sometime fairly recently (less than a year, more than
> a few weeks) someone mentioned a way to "autofind" the
> path to perl on the shebang line so you don't need to
> hardcode the path. I can't seem to find the post in
> the archives. Does any one remember the method or what
> thread it might have been mentioned in?
That would probably have been the use of the "env" utility: instead of
#!/usr/bin/perl
or similar you make the first line of your scripts read
#!/usr/bin/env perl
and it'll find the first perl in your environment. See
http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=29328&seqNum=3
for some more info.
Cheers,
Paul
