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On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 11:07 AM, Eric Wong <e@80x24.org> wrote:
> Also, my use of a numeric comparison may be more future-proof
> in case FreeBSD decides to have /usr/bin/perl again.
>
> I also wonder why we don't use `which` to search for somewhat
> standard path components, instead.  Something like:

Because historically output from "which" was not meant to be
machine parseable (some implementation said 'perl is /usr/bin/perl')