++ Thanks for your response.

I only started using PERL5OPT a few weeks ago because I was sick of having to add those pragmata whenever I wanted a quick one-liner.

The "perlrun: PERL5OPT" documentation starts:

"Command-line options (switches). Switches in this variable are treated as if they were on every Perl command line."

I took this to mean that (with my current PERL5OPT settings) 

perl -E '...'

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would be expanded to 

perl -Mstrict -Mwarnings -Mautodie -E '...'

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I ran quite a few tests and, when satisfied everything worked OK, modified my .bash_profile so that it would always be available.

It never occurred to me that this would affect scripts; however, following your comments, I've run additional script tests and it does appear that my shebang line 

#!/usr/bin/env perl

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is being altered to 

#!/usr/bin/env perl -Mstrict -Mwarnings -Mautodie

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As I always add strict and warnings to every script, and often add autodie, this is not a problem for me. So, while I thank you for alerting me to this, I will continue to use PERL5OPT as I'm currently doing unless I come across a good reason for not doing so.

"It makes your scripts non-portable."

Perhaps you could expand on this. I'm failing to see any portability issues.

— Ken

In reply to Re^3: Need script help by kcott
in thread Need script help by jmckinzie

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