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Date:      10 May 2002 01:52:30 +0200
From:      Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
To:        Jordan DeLong <fracture@allusion.net>
Cc:        Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>, Joseph Scott <joseph@randomnetworks.com>, Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>, Paul Richards <paul@freebsd-services.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: The future of perl on FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <xzpznz8khfl.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
In-Reply-To: <20020509182927.A71548@allusion.net>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0205090821380.98498-100000@pebkac.owp.csus.edu> <691.1020958309@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> <20020509182927.A71548@allusion.net>

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Jordan DeLong <fracture@allusion.net> writes:
> Seems that neither symlink nor redirector is neccesary; portable
> perl shebangs use #!/usr/bin/env perl to search $PATH for it, and
> if the local sysadmin wants they can make a symlink.

Most Perl scripts use '#!/usr/bin/perl'; also, using a redirector has
the very nice side effect of clobbering the old Perl binary.

DES
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org

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