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Auto shebang hacking

by rinceWind (Monsignor)
on Mar 13, 2002 at 00:30 UTC ( [id://151278]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re: question about perl
in thread How do I change the shebang line for all perl scripts in a directory

I had some thoughts about this very subject posted to a different forum.

We spend a lot of effort with modules, verifying that all files are present, they work, etc. before putting them live.

What about their poor relations, the scripts? A script writer could implement tests in an equivalent of make test. The install step could copy to cgi-bin or wherever the script needs to go, changing the shebang line in the process, having worked out where perl lives.

Could Extutils::MakeMaker be used to do this, or is this too hard-coded for modules and h2xs?

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•Re: Auto shebang hacking
by merlyn (Sage) on Mar 13, 2002 at 01:03 UTC
    Check the only entry in my CPAN directory for my script that does shell-to-Perl translation. It shows how to hack the shebang line during installation, and also shows tests for the script.

    -- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker

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