(OT) Perl command line interpolation

[jesuashok]

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[gellyfish]

I don't think you mean 'interpolation'

People use the #!/usr/bin/env perl so that they can run the program on a variety of systems where they can rely on the presence of 'env' but don't necessarily know where the perl interpreter is located. env is a utility to run a program in a controlled environment, but in this case it is used simply for it's feature that it will find the program in the $PATH. There is no other particular advantage to use it and env is not necessarily available on all Unix-like systems.

/J\

[jaa]

This is not really a perl question - the shebang line is used by the shell to determine which command will handle the script.

env is a binary that will execute your command in a modified environment -- man env is your friend!

#!/usr/bin/env -i perl
# executes perl in an empty environment - no PERL5ENV etc

#!/usr/bin/env -i PERL5LIB=~/src perl
# executes perl in with only specified PERL5ENV etc

Using env to run perl might be very slightly slower - but I doubt you will be able to measure the impact.