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document updated 13 years ago, on Apr 11, 2011

There have been many ways used to make .bat or .cmd files out of Perl scripts, to emulate somewhat Unix's shebang mechanism.

utilities that will wrap .pl scripts as a .bat or .cmd
- pl2bat
  - to make it use the proper Syntax highlighting in Vim, enable modelines in your local Vim, and add this to the first line:
  - it uses this header
  - an explanation of what the @rem is (WAS) used for
- runperl.bat (instead of embedding the Perl script inside, you place the Perl script alongside the .bat file, with the same name as the .bat file)
you can also create a file association for .pl, and twiddle the PATHEXT