Is there an alternative to #!/usr/bin/perl

[Hobson, Neville]

I'm writing perl scripts that will be distributed to locations where I
cannot gaurantee the location of perl. Is there a clean alternative to the
shebang with the specific perl path? Maybe using an environment variable to
locate perl?
The camel book suggests the following:

#!/bin/sh --
eval 'exec /usr/bin/perl -S $0 ${1+"$@"}'
  if 0;

Is this the best alternative and are there situations in which it might not
work?

Neville

 

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