Re: [PATCH] global: resolve Perl executable via PATH

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> The majority of Perl scripts we carry in Git have a `#!/usr/bin/perl`
> shebang. This is not a portable location for the Perl interpreter and
> may thus break on some systems that have the interpreter installed in a
> different location. One such example is NixOS, where the only executable
> installed in `/usr/bin` is env(1).
>
> Convert the shebangs to resolve the location of the Perl interpreter via
> env(1) to make these scripts more portable. While the location of env(1)
> is not guaranteed by any standard either, in practice all distributions
> including NixOS have it available at `/usr/bin/env`. We're also already
> using this idiom in a small set of other scripts, and until now nobody
> complained about them.