Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 11:31:56 +1300 From: Mark Kirkwood <markir@paradise.net.nz> To: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: [HEADS UP] perl symlinks in /usr/bin will be gone Message-ID: <41FC0EDC.50901@paradise.net.nz> In-Reply-To: <41FBFDD9.7070605@mac.com> References: <20050129202425.GA56998@heechee.tobez.org> <20050129220905.46ab86ae.lehmann@ans-netz.de> <41FBFDD9.7070605@mac.com>
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Chuck Swiger wrote: > Well-behaved 3rd party scripts ought to start Perl via: > > #! /usr/bin/env perl > > ...so long as /usr/local/bin is in the $PATH, they should still work fine. > It seems that this usage is not that common. On my 5.3R system the stats are: 1101 scripts ending in .pl 490 of these have #! <something>/perl as their 1st line 10 of these use #!/usr/bin/env perl regards Mark
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