Exemple shell script to wrap PERL

[The FAQchest]

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"Wilson, Doug" wrote:
> 
> ~sdpm~
> 
> > From: The FAQchest [mailto:faqchest at abac.com]
> >
> > During last night's meeting, Joel asked for a way to universally
> > determine the absolute path to PERL in order to create a generic PERL
> > script that would run as CGI on a large variety of systems, of course
> > with various PERL installations.
> >
> > Here is a sample script. Let us know if it works well on your
> > architecture.
> 
> I'd change one thing, this line:
> perl_loc=`which perl | grep perl | sed -e 's,/perl,,'`
> 
> wouldn't work for perls installed in /opt/perl5/bin, or
> for me either because I have perl installed in a really
> strange place that has '/perl' in the middle of the
> path, so I'd change that to:
> perl_loc=`which perl | grep perl | sed -e 's,/perl$,,'`

Actually you're totally right. Let's go for it.

Indeed, I've added /opt/perl5/bin for the HPUX implementations. I don't
have a SunOS system at hand right now. SunOS also uses a /opt partition.
Perl may be found here too.

 
> And on one system I've seen, 'which' was spelled 'whence' (don't
> ask me which one, I don't remember (and its rather uncommon
> anyway) :)

whence is also used in HPUX.

I have a vague souvenir of either one (type,which,whence) being in fact
an alias to one other with a switch.

I'll check on Monday.

-Thierry

> 
> > PS: The new location for the meeting is awesome. Thanks!
> 
> I agree :-)
> 
> -Doug
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