[wellylug] Perl on server

[John Durham]

Kevin O'Riordan wrote:
>>>> #!/usr/local/bin/perl
> 
>>> you might need to edit the first line to become the right path for
>>> your perl executable
> 
>> I'm aware of the path requirement, thanks.
> 
> 
> As a by-the-way, the perlrun(1) manpage suggests using
> 
>    #!/usr/bin/env perl
> 
> or an ugly shell eval/exec hack, to avoid explicitly specifying the
> path to the perl binary.
> 
> 
> To check what modules you're missing, something like:
> 
>     ( cd /path/to/perl/scripts &&
>       find ./ -name '*.pl' -print0 \
> 	| xargs -r0 egrep '^use ' \
> 	| sort | uniq \
> 	| while read use_line 
> 	do
> 	  perl -e "$use_line" 2>/dev/null
> 	  if [ $? -eq 0 ]
> 	  then
> 	    echo "   '$use_line' compiles, at least"
> 	  else
> 	    echo ">> '$use_line' failed - module missing?" >&2
> 	  fi
> 	done
>     )
> 
> hth,
> Kev
That could be very handy,thanks.


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