Jos wrote:
> the whole point to setting a shebang is so you *dont* have to type
> /foo/bar/yada/quux/some/more/blah/perl
There is another imporant reason to set the shebang...CGI.
> you can, if on *nix (DOSneyland will ignore the shebang), say:
> /script
You can do this, but make sure you have set the permissions to allow it to
be executed.
> now, if you're in DOSneyland, like mentioned above, setting the shebang
has
> little effect, other then switches passed to the interpreter, ie:
> #!c:\perl\bin\perl -w
>
> will cause perl to run under -w, but does little for you in terms of
> choosing the correct interpreter for the script.
I'm basically ignorant about perl in windows. This is good to know.
Thanks for clearing things up.
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