[Gllug] Perl 'running' python and bash

[Mark Hill]

Hi,

I've accidentally found that perl will 'run' python, bash and possibly
other scripts. Through a bit of investigation, it seems that perl will
look at the shebang line of a given script and call the appropriate
interpretter. E.G: A python script consisting of:

#!/usr/bin/python
print "Hello"

Can be executed as perl file.py

Is there any reason why perl does this, or was it implemented just for
fun? 

Thanks. 

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Mark Hill
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