Re: Sidestepping the Shebang

Unlike most interpreters, Perl does pay attention to the she-bang line, and it may fire up the interpreter mentioned on it if it thinks that isn't some form of perl.

Could you tell us the exact she-bang line, and tell us the exact command line you give that fails? The OS might be useful as well.

Perl --((8:>*

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Re^2: Sidestepping the Shebang by Sprad (Hermit) on Nov 02, 2005 at 17:06 UTC
Sure thing. Shebang line: `#!/usr/bin/perl` Command line: `/tmp/perl -x /home/sprad/test/broken.pl` This is on a Linux box. Red Hat 7.2, if it makes a difference. Bash shell. I've tried it with and without the -x flag, no difference. --- A fair fight is a sign of poor planning.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: Sidestepping the Shebang by Perl Mouse (Chaplain) on Nov 02, 2005 at 17:16 UTC
That means perl shouldn't fire up "/usr/bin/perl", so that isn't the problem. I'm afraid I can't further help you - I don't think I can replicate your behaviour (I often run with a different version of perl than mentioned on the she-bang line, and never have problems with it.) `Perl --((8:>*`	[reply]