Subject: Re: bash won't hand off to perl (reprise)
From: [email-masked] (Fergus Henderson)

20 Mar 1997 21:48:00 -0800
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In-Reply-To: <[email-masked]> from "JP Shipherd" at Mar 20, 97 12:12:37 pm
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JP Shipherd, you wrote:
> 
> However, the following still does not work:
> 
> %> /bin/sh perl-script.pl
> 
> In this case bash still tries to process the file as if it is a bourne
> shell script.

That is what it is supposed to do.

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