From: Chet Ramey (chet@nike.ins.cwru.edu)                                      
Subject: Re: Execing perl?                                                     
Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug                                                       
Date: 2001-07-11 12:04:27 PST                                                  

> OK, this isn't a bug, and it's also something that you'd _think_ would
> be so obvious it'd be right at the top of all the FAQs, etc... but I
> can't find it, nor can I figure it out.
> 
> The Perl docs (perlrun) say you can use this stanza to write a perl
> script when you don't know where the perl runtime will be; something
> like:
> 
>   #!/bin/sh -- # -*- perl -*-
>   eval 'exec perl -wS $0 ${1+"$@"}'
>     if $running_under_some_shell;
> 
> This doesn't work if bash is /bin/sh; I get this error:
> 
>   /bin/sh: -- # -*-perl-*-: unrecognized option

This really doesn't have anything to do with the shell, per se.  The
kernel is passing the rest of the line to /bin/sh as argv[1], and
bash is attempting to open it as a shell script.

Chet

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