Does this look like Perl code?

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Re: Does this look like Perl code? by ikegami (Patriarch) on Jul 17, 2006 at 18:56 UTC
No. It's some form of shell script. It was probably designed for the Bourne shell (`sh`) or for `bash`. I think it will run in both.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: Does this look like Perl code? by Anonymous Monk on Jul 17, 2006 at 19:19 UTC
Thank you very much - It seems kind of silly for me to have asked the question.	[reply]
Re: Does this look like Perl code? by jcoxen (Deacon) on Jul 17, 2006 at 18:58 UTC
Looks like a shell script to me - Bourne or BASH probably. Jack	[reply]
Re: Does this look like Perl code? by ahmad (Hermit) on Jul 17, 2006 at 19:16 UTC
no , it's not perl code ... it's bash code	[reply]
Re: Does this look like Perl code? by lukeyboy1 (Beadle) on Jul 18, 2006 at 14:26 UTC
Yup. It looks like it could do with a #!/bin/sh at the top of it. A bit bad of the original author that it doesn't have that already, mind you.....! Find them, and kick some a$$! :)	[reply]
Re^2: Does this look like Perl code? by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Jul 18, 2006 at 14:39 UTC
Note that you don’t need the shebang if it’s just `#!/bin/sh` – the kernel will invoke the shell on files that neither are binary objects nor have a shebang. So that would be a clue – if you get a script that gets invoked directly as an executable (like, say, a CGI script) instead of being passed to an interpreter, and it doesn’t have a shebang, then it’s always a `/bin/sh` script. Makeshifts last the longest.	[reply]