filePro Perl scripts (and other scripting languages)

[Jay Ashworth]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kenneth Brody" <kenbrody at spamcop.net>

> Yes, you can use things like "#!/usr/bin/perl" on *nix systems, but
> you need to hard-code the path (so if you move to a system where it's
> "/usr/local/bin/perl", it won't work unless you edit all of your
> scripts), and it's not portable to Windows.

In fact the current received wisdom is:

#!/usr/bin/env perl $PERLSWITCHES

Which, certainly, pushes the issue down a layer, but as far as I know,
if you have env at all, you have it in /usr/bin.

Cheers,
-- jra
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