blazerte wrote: > but... > > Is /usr/bin/env more "universal" than /usr/bin/perl ?
That is the purpose of this survey. If, as I expect, we don't find a platform that doesn't have /usr/bin/env then we can say that /usr/bin/env is indeed more universal than /usr/bin/perl > I'm only familiar than Debian, really. Has there been a problem in the > past with certain operating systems or dists ? I've run into the issue when experimenting with Solaris (Nevada b85). Solaris comes with perl in /usr/bin, but only v5.8.4. A later version is available from the Sun "coolstack" project - 5.8.8. This is installed in /opt/coolstack/perl, with the binary in /opt/coolstack/bin. I have modified /opt/coolstack/bin to be in my path *before* /usr/bin So, when the shebang is "#!/usr/bin/perl", that version of perl is used instead of the one I want to use. Using "#!/usr/bin/env perl" means that the script will use whatever version of perl the system is configured to prefer rather than forcing /usr/bin/perl. R. _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
