Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!mailrus!umix!umich!mibte!gamma!ulysses!thumper!faline!bellcore!tness7!ninja!sys1!techsup!cpe!tif From: tif@cpe.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.sources.d Subject: Re: Perl: Hacking The !# Simulation Message-ID: <6800012@cpe> Date: 4 May 88 13:36:00 GMT References: <67@uvaarpa.virginia.edu> Lines: 19 Nf-ID: #R:uvaarpa.virginia.edu:67:cpe:6800012:000:684 Nf-From: cpe.UUCP!tif May 4 08:36:00 1988 Written 10:01 am May 2, 1988 by uvaarpa.UUCP!mer6g in cpe:comp.sources.d >What if we could do something like this: > >eval "exec /bin/perl -S $0 $*" > if $running_via_sh; > >The -S switch would cause the script file to be searched for either using an >algorithm implemented within perl (best case) or else by running a program >(ksh, csh, sh) the path to which is configurable and compiled in (acceptable >case). Along this line, it sounds like perl should have a special variable that is like $0 only contains a full path. I guess that still leaves the implementation technique in question. Paul Chamberlain Computer Product Engineering, Tandy Corp. ihnp4!sys1!cpe!tif