[Gllug] Perl 'running' python and bash

[Doug Winter]

Mark Hill wrote:
> Is there any reason why perl does this, or was it implemented just for
> fun? 

strange.

The perlrun(1) manpage says:

# If the #! line does not contain the word "perl", 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 will then dispatch the program to the correct interpreter for
# them.

doug.

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