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Date:      Sun, 30 Jan 2005 11:31:56 +1300
From:      Mark Kirkwood <markir@paradise.net.nz>
To:        Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: [HEADS UP] perl symlinks in /usr/bin will be gone
Message-ID:  <41FC0EDC.50901@paradise.net.nz>
In-Reply-To: <41FBFDD9.7070605@mac.com>
References:  <20050129202425.GA56998@heechee.tobez.org> <20050129220905.46ab86ae.lehmann@ans-netz.de> <41FBFDD9.7070605@mac.com>

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Chuck Swiger wrote:

> Well-behaved 3rd party scripts ought to start Perl via:
> 
> #! /usr/bin/env perl
> 
> ...so long as /usr/local/bin is in the $PATH, they should still work fine.
>
It seems that this usage is not that common. On my 5.3R system the stats 
are:

1101 scripts ending in .pl
490  of these have #! <something>/perl as their 1st line
10 of these use #!/usr/bin/env perl


regards

Mark



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