Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2010 04:27:35 -0700 From: merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) To: Anton Yuzhaninov <citrin@citrin.ru> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: perl links Message-ID: <86zl1btumw.fsf@red.stonehenge.com> In-Reply-To: <hppk7i$1vf$1@dough.gmane.org> (Anton Yuzhaninov's message of "Sat, 10 Apr 2010 10:34:26 %2B0000 (UTC)") References: <4BBFB4E8.9010304@comclark.com> <hppk7i$1vf$1@dough.gmane.org>
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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. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <merlyn@stonehenge.com> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/>; Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See http://methodsandmessages.vox.com/ for Smalltalk and Seaside discussion
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