[plug] Running a script to parse a script with args

[James Devenish]

In message <200308281529.42759.T.Phillips at murdoch.edu.au>
on Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 03:29:42PM +0800, Trevor Phillips wrote:
>     #!/usr/bin/perl /my/perl/script some args
>     data....
> 
> It returns an error indicating perl is trying to run "/my/perl/script some 
> args" as the script name.

That is correct. The above syntax is very limited "kludge" (it may even
have a very short line-length limit!) that most of us take for granted.
All data after the first whitespace character will be passed to perl as
a single argument (hence the error message). *Furthermore*, Perl will
actually receive command-line arguments of the script. So it is best to
avoid this syntax for anything sophisticated.

Further explanation:

    If you have named script.sh that contains this:

        #!/usr/bin/perl /my/perl/script some args

    and you invoke script.sh as

        ./script.sh more args

    then, IIRC, /usr/bin/perl will receive the following four
    command-line arguments (I have written them ONE per line):

    /my/perl/script some args
    ./script.sh
    more
    args