Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2000 04:20:02 -0800 (PST) From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: misc/15782: kernel script handling breaks with perl Message-ID: <200001041220.EAA22283@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR misc/15782; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> To: arjan@inventionz.org Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: misc/15782: kernel script handling breaks with perl Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2000 14:09:57 +0200 On Thu, 30 Dec 1999 07:32:47 PST, arjan@inventionz.org wrote: > While moving our webserver from OpenBSD to FreeBSD (hurray !), we've > seen a lot of perl scripts break on the first line > "#!/usr/bin/perl -*-perl-*-" What is that supposed to do? What is the -* option? I can't see how this is supposed to work. > Now I don't know that this is a good idea, but Laary Wall decided Perl > would expect one argument, including whitespace for #!perl > scripts. Where did you get this information? Take a look at the example given in the "Switches" subsection of the perlrun(5) manual page. Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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