Re: How to run Perl script at Mac OS (Darwin) Release?

2008-03-09 Thread Igor Sutton
On Mar 9, 2008, at 12:31 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mar 7, 2008, at 7:48 PM, Larry Prall wrote: Change the she-bang (#!) line to read: #!/usr/bin/perl -w That's the location of the default perl installation on OS X. That _may_ be the problem, but it is not necessarily the problem.

Re: How to run Perl script at Mac OS (Darwin) Release?

2008-03-09 Thread Doug McNutt
Hashing of tools by shells has not been mentioned. It may not be part of the problem but on invocation many, if not all, shells examine the $PATH variable and make a table of executables that it finds. The table is then converted to a hashed lookup array in order to improve speed of response.