perlrun - how to execute the Perl interpreter - Perldoc Browser

CONTENTS NAME SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION #! and quoting on non-Unix systems Location of Perl Command Switches ENVIRONMENT ORDER OF APPLICATION #NAME perlrun - how to execute the Perl interpreter #SYNOPSIS perl [ -gsTtuUWX ] [ -h?v ] [ -V[:configvar] ] [ -cw ] [ -d[t][:debugger] ] [ -D[number/list] ] [ -pna ] [ -Fpattern ] [ -l[octal] ] [ -0[octal/hexadecimal] ] [ -Idir ] [ -m[-]module ] [ -M[-]'module..

[meech]

“If the #! line does not contain the word "perl" nor the word "indir" the program named after the #! is executed instead of the Perl interpreter. This is slightly bizarre, but it helps people on machines that don't do #! , because they can tell a program that their SHELL is /usr/bin/perl, and Perl