I have a curious permissions problem with perl. This is a snippet from my ~/.bashrc: 
# determine terminal
D_TERM=`tty | perl -e 'print /tty/ ? "vt220" : "xterm-color"'`
TERM=${D_TERM}

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This is interesting since I can actually execute the perl binary, and I am a member of the perlusers group (whom own the perl directory). Here's more interesting stuff: 
18:25:28 [alex : macachu : ~]
[3] $ tty | perl -e 'print /tty/ ? "vt220" : "xterm-color"'
Can't open perl script "-e": Permission denied

18:25:55 [alex : macachu : ~]
[5] $ tty | perl <<EOP
[ Continued ] > print /tty/ ? "vt220" : "xterm-color"
[ Continued ] > EOP
xterm-color18:26:30 [alex : macachu : ~]
[6] $

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So there is something in the way that perl is interpreting the -e. This worries me. What would allow me to use heredoc perl as well as scripts but not -e?

freaked out,
brother dep.

ps. in contrast to some of my recent posts, this is my home box, and i am rootly here. :)
pps. i just also noticed that this will always print the latter since its evaluating $_ when I really want $_[0].
update: no, there are no perl aliases.
update2:well, merlyn rightly suggested i strace(1) or truss(1) it, and lo, /dev/null was not world readable. problem fixed.

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