code does not work on HP

Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Below is code I copied from somewhere that allows perl to be any where in the path. This works great on SUN - but returns the following error on an HP

# A comment mentioning perl to prevent looping.: A specified flag is not valid f or this command.

Anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks Robert Walkup

rdww@ti.com


#!/bin/sh --       # A comment mentioning perl to prevent looping.
eval 'exec `which perl` -S $0 ${1+"$@"}'
    if 0;
# The above 3 lines perform magic: they cause this script to be fed
# to perl no matter where it is installed, provided it is in the PATH.
# Unless you *really* know what you are doing, do not touch them.
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Re: code does not work on HP by Fletch (Bishop) on Jan 09, 2003 at 16:08 UTC
Apparently either HP's `/bin/sh` or its `exec()` call is passing the entire shebang line and `/bin/sh` doesn't know what to do with the ``# A comment ...`' chunk. See `perldoc perlrun` for some other alternatives to hardcoding the path to perl in the shebang (not that there's not advantages to hardcoding it, especially if you leave multiple versions lying around your `PATH`).	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: code does not work on HP by Mr. Muskrat (Canon) on Jan 09, 2003 at 16:14 UTC
Have you tried `#!/usr/bin/env perl` or the HP equivelent?	[reply] [d/l]