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>>>>> "Anton" == Anton Yuzhaninov <citrin@citrin.ru> writes:


Anton> most perl scripts begins with

Anton> #!/usr/bin/perl

Anton> this is common convention (also outside *BSD world)

In fact, it's the recommendation from the original Camel book in 1990
(which I wrote, but the kids forget that :) that no matter where you
install Perl, you always link/symlink /usr/bin/perl so that scripts can
safely use shebang.

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