in reply to Perl Version Mystery

If you've a lot of scripts with shebangs that you need to change, you can use the standard mechanism that ships with ExtUtils::MakeMaker, which itself is part of the core:

perl -MExtUtils::MY -e 'MY->fixin(@ARGV)' *.pl

See my use.perl journal on the subject.

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