On Fri, 05 Mar 2010 11:42:34 -0500, Jay Savage wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 2:12 PM, YAPH <yet.another.perl.hac...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I got a perl script that begins like this.
>>
>>
>> #!/usr/bin/sh -- # -*- perl -*-
>>
>> eval 'ORACLE_HOME=/opt/oracle; export ORACLE_HOME;LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/
>> oracle/lib; export LD_LIBRARY_PATH; exec /bin/perl $0 ${1+"$@"} ;' if
>> 0;
>
>
> This isn't a Perl script. This is a shell script to be executed by
> whichever shell lives at /usr/bin/sh on your system.
And to explain the comment "# -*-perl-*-" - this tells editors (Emacs for
one) that the code is Perl (if the filename doesn't end in .p[hlm] and
the #! doesn't have a path to perl in it, the autodetection won't work),
thereby causing the editor to switch to Perl syntax mode.
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