Re: #!/Perl question
*- 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:
{servis@widget}{~}[2]>uname -a
SunOS widget.ecn.purdue.edu 5.6 Generic_105181-15 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-4
{servis@widget}{~}[3]>which perl
/usr/local/bin/perl
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Brian
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