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Re: Basic question: msg#00038

Subject: Re: Basic question
>>>>> "Wren" == Wren Argetlahm <phreelance@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

Wren> And how is this different/better than just using
Wren> "#!perl"?

Well, #!perl works only when Perl is in your current directory,
so unless you're in the habit of running your programs while
cd'ed to /usr/bin, it's not gonna do much good.

The #! line does *not* look at PATH.

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