As you can all see, I am quite new to PerlMonks.
While just hanging around over here, checking some code left and right, reading some nodes and comments, I have seen a strange thing: code written for some Windows version, having this -or something similar- as the first line:
#!usr/bin/perl
For goodness sake, why? What's the sense of a shebang when it points to a directory that can't exist on your system? What's the sense of a shebang if your shell does not support them?

Don't misunderstand me: I use shebangs myself too. They're for the CGI scripts I write to test things on/with my Win32 webserver (Xitami) and they look like: #!perl or #!d:\perl\bin\perl.exe so they do make sense.

But I just don't get in what other cases you would want to use a shebang. Oh yeah, maybe when you use cygwin. But then... why to /usr/bin/perl?

In reply to Using Perl, some Windows version and #!usr/bin/perl, WHY? by muba

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