Perl question

[Bill Vermillion]

On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 04:53:37PM -0400, Bill Vermillion thus spoke:
> On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 01:50:12PM -0700, Steven Waters thus spoke:
> > So I am assuming that, #/usr/bin perl -T is ignored.
> > but, #!/usr/bin/perl -T is not?

One clarification:

> The magic number is used by the 'file' command to tell you what
> kind of file it is.

> To test just copy any file over to a new name and remove the !.

To test copy any shell type file over to a new name - any file
that starts with #!

That the univeral lead in for the entries in the magic file.

If it see #!/bin/csh it says its a c-shell program.  If
its  #!/bin/perl , or any perl path or " exec /bin/perl" it's the
same.

#! is the trigger and magic is scanned for the program name that
follows this sequence.

Bill
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