edit the perl shebang line

[stormbind]

Hi,

How can I change the PERL shebang line. I want to emulate the webhost on my PC for testing and it's really troublesome that the two settings are not the same.

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[siberian]

Open the script in notepad
Edit the 'shebang line'
Save the script

If your asking 'how do I emulate the shebang line that is required for unix under windows' the answer is 'you should not need to , your webserver should associate .pl files with your perl interpetor'.

 

[stormbind]

It does not though!

To get a PERL script working on Apache/Win32 I have to use this:

#perl

To get a PERL script working on my webhost (Apache/*nix) I have to use:

#usr/bin/perl

This is makes testing scripts offline a lot more work than they should be and it's bloody awful!

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[stormbind]

Yes, the scipts are associated with the interpreter but I want to test them in Apache - as a web page.

It's no good seeing it popup as a command line when it's supposed to be outputting interactive HTML.

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[siberian]

So just change it locally, test and work on it and then before sending it back out put the proper shebang line in.

I must be missing your real question...
Are you really asking 'I have like 400 scripts with the unix shebang and I want to easily convert these to the win32 shebang'?

 

[stormbind]

Yup, you got it.

I have loads of scripts and complex directory structure

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[stormbind]

Not only that, but that ain't mine! So no breaking them... LOL

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[siberian]

I can think of no automatic way to handle this. Your best bet is to write a perl script to parse all the perl files in the directory each way. Then you can automagically make them work locally and then automagically make them work remotely.

Sorry I can't give more advice on that one.

 

[stormbind]

There has to be something in the config. This is ridiculous!

It's not platform specific, it is to do with the setup

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[danielhozac]

If you have your Perl files associated with the interpreter, using the directive

ScriptInterpreterSource

(

http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/core.html#scriptinterpretersource)

might help.

//Daniel

 

[stormbind]

Found fix. This is a unix shell for Windows. It allows you to setup symlinks

http://www.mingw.org/msys.shtml

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