Hi Monks, I am using some perl scripts here at work in conjunction with another site. The users at the other site have written the scripts and invoke them with the top line of: #!/usr/local/bin/perl. However, at our site, we use perl from /usr/bin. We want to come up with a consistent way of using the same scripts with no modifications what so ever. Is there a way to do this? I know you can invoke the script by putting the version you want in front of it, but this requires modifications, and not very helpful, as in the following case: /usr/bin/perl myscript.pl . Is there some sort of environment variable or something we can use to say where our perl executable is located? Thanks for the help! Randy

In reply to Perl executable location differences by flounder

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