just wish there was an easier way.

We're constrained by your requirement to call the wrapper.

I basically have to tell everyone at my company that they need to cut and paste this little piece of code at the top of their perl scripts.

Still, it's better than the alternative: Having to write a shell script every time you want to run a perl script (two files instead of one).

Neither are true. Both can be handled automatically during install.

I wish /bin/env would just allow me to pass command line arguments to perl. Why can't it?

Oh it does 

$ /usr/bin/env perl -v

This is perl 5, vers...

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The issue (Upd: with the shebang ) is that the OS passes everything after the first whitespace as one argument (Upd: to the command being launched ).

In reply to Re^3: Perl wrapper by ikegami
in thread Perl wrapper by weigand

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