Maybe that explains some of the results I've seen, where it appears everything after interpreter is glommed into a single argument. I'm now left with attempts like the following, which just churn the CPU and never start Perl.

   #!/bin/bash
   eval 'LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/my/lib /usr/bin/perl /the/script'
      if $runningUnderSomeShell;

   warn "$ENV{LD_LIBRARY_PATH}\n";
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Again, this is based on perlrun, though I'm obviously doing something wrong.

Thanks,

Jim