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As TinTin mentions, the #! (shebang) line is recognised by perl to pick up command line flags, but if you're interested in using command line flags without typing the entire path to your perl script, you can shorten it up a bit by just using:<br />
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#!perl -flags<br />
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The entire path (drive letter, colon, path, executable) is not needed.. Just the word 'perl' followed by your flags.<br />
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Hope this helps save some time.
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As TinTin mentions, the #! (shebang) line is recognised by perl to pick up command line flags, but if you're interested in using command line flags without typing the entire path to your perl script, you can shorten it up a bit by just using:

#!perl -flags

The entire path (drive letter, colon, path, executable) is not needed.. Just the word 'perl' followed by your flags.

Hope this helps save some time.

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Tintin,<br />
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Is this same for UNIX also ..<br />
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Shirish
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Tintin,

Is this same for UNIX also ..

Shirish

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On Unix systems, the #! line is important, as it tells the Unix kernel how/what to execute the file with, so most Perl scripts on Unix systems start with<br />
<br />
#!/usr/bin/perl<br />
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as /usr/bin is the usual directory where perl exists.
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On Unix systems, the #! line is important, as it tells the Unix kernel how/what to execute the file with, so most Perl scripts on Unix systems start with

#!/usr/bin/perl

as /usr/bin is the usual directory where perl exists.

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All,<br />
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I'm new to perl..<br />
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For windows do we have to mention the perl executable path at the top of the script always -<br />
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#! &lt;your perl executable here&gt;<br />
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Shirish
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All,

I'm new to perl..

For windows do we have to mention the perl executable path at the top of the script always -

#! <your perl executable here>

Shirish

perl executable path in perl script - win

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