Re: what is this?

[Tom Allison]

simran wrote:

From the docs...

 -S   makes perl use the PATH environment variable to  search
          for  the  script  (unless the name of the script starts
          with a slash).  Typically this is used  to  emulate  #!
          startup  on machines that don't support #!, in the fol-
          lowing manner:

               #!/usr/bin/perl
               eval "exec /usr/bin/perl -S $0 $*"
                    if $running_under_some_shell;

If I read this correctly the above code just surpasses the #!/usr/bin/perl line in case it fails to find /usr/bin/perl and conducts a $PATH search?



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You mean you didn't *know* she was off making lots of little phone companies?


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