[HEADS UP] perl symlinks in /usr/bin will be gone
Mark Sergeant
msergeant at snsonline.net
Sun Jan 30 03:11:47 PST 2005
>> HANKS!
>
> Don't despair, ironically Perl itself can solve this problem for you,
> using
> something like
>
> find /some/directory -type f -print0 | \
> xargs -0 perl -pi -e 's,^#! ?/usr(/local)?/bin/perl,#!/usr/bin/env
> perl'
>
One problem I always had with "env" or equivalents... what happens if
someone manages to polute $PATH with a perl that is not infact perl but
something else, I remember being taught "Always specify full paths to
binaries, especially in cron".
Cheers,
Mark
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