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The first line of Perl_CGI script, env perl vs perl only, how different?

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Until recently I runs all of my Perl scripts as well as Perl_CGI scripts by starting the folowing salutation,

#! /usr/bin/perl -w

The script with this beginning runs well at BASH shell at (/home/mkido/bin) LINUX such as Fedora, Ubuntu, Rocky (Alma-derivative). However, almost right now I noticed some of Perl example around has the different first line as below,

#! /usr/bin/env perl

And it doesn't seem to run at HOME BASH shell (/home/mkido/bin) by simple way of executing it by-itself by the command line. Wil…

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