One of my favourite old-school Perl magic spells used to portably handle broken shells is: #!/usr/bin/perl eval 'exec /usr/bin/perl -S $0 ${1+"$@"}' if

One of my favourite old-school Perl magic spells used to portably handle broken shells is: #!/usr/bin/perl eval 'exec /usr/bin/perl -S $0 ${1+"$@"}' if 0; See: https://www.perl.com/article/bang-bang/ https://www.perl.com/article/bang-bang/