* Paul McCann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 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
Which is not really portable with command line options, due to how env(1) works on OS X: $ <test #!/usr/bin/env perl -wl print "hello world" $ ./test env: perl -wl: No such file or directory A different trick that I have not tested on other unix systems (as I just use '#!/usr/bin/perl') is to do the following: $ <test exec perl -wl <<EOF print "hello world" $ ./test hello world
