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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