*- On 2 Sep, Jonathan Markevich wrote about "Re: #!/Perl question" > On Fri, Sep 03, 1999 at 03:04:49AM +0800, Hans van den Boogert wrote: >> I'm trying to learn some Perl. I found an on-line book which is Unix >> biased, but the scripts all start with #!/usr/local/bin/perl (which makes >> sense if you have compiled and installed it yourself). However, on my >> Debian system Perl was of course put in /usr/bin/perl. So how can I write a >> Perl script that be executed on a variety of systems (Unix/Linux/DOS)?? > > Personally, I would count on /usr/bin/perl. It seems unusual to take such > an important key to lots of system-based scripts and keep it local. Check > out this:
I think(i.e. just my local experience) many of the commercial Unix's put everything under /usr/local that is not part of the core OS. Unlike Linux distributions most commercial Unix's don't come with all the apps pre-packaged. >From the university server here: [EMAIL PROTECTED]>uname -a SunOS widget.ecn.purdue.edu 5.6 Generic_105181-15 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-4 [EMAIL PROTECTED]>which perl /usr/local/bin/perl -- Brian --------------------------------------------------------------------- Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis ---------------------------------------------------------------------
