path to perl

[Gazevs]

I am currently trying to install a script and was wondering if
#!/usr/bin/perl is the same as usr/bin/perl
thanks in advance.

[raymie]

In effect, yes.

[archangel_617b]

You really ought to include the leading slash though (/usr/bin/perl)

[jerdo]

No they are not the same at all. usr/bin/perl would look in the current directory for a usr directory. /usr/bin/perl tells it to look from root to usr. Completely different if you try to run this from /var/www/html, the first method would try /var/www/html/usr/bin/perl which is most likely not your perl is installed.

[Gazevs]

I have two answers here 2 yes and 1 no so I think I will go with the majority and if that fails I,ll try the other
Thank you.

[theeper]

usr/bin/perl is not the same as /usr/bin/perl

The first is a relative path, so if your script resides in /var/mydir,
it will expect to find perl at /var/mydir/usr/bin/perl

If your script happend to be in the root dir ie. / , then it would
work fine.

Always, always, always use an absolute path, this way if you move your script, it still finds the perl.

[jerdo]

I already told him that, but he decided to go with the most popular answer (from two people that must be unfamiliar with UNIX) instead of the correct one. Oh well.

[Gazevs]

I tried the other one it works. Thanks jerdo I should have listened to you in the first place.
nevermind.
thanks everyone