Perl storage question

[AZ_]

How come on Windows I don't have to include the comment #!/usr/bin/perl? I can just write commands and they automatically get stored (somewhere), and execute them. Where do they get stored? If I was using a unix system, how could I change the storage place from /usr/bin/perl to something like /alpha/omega/perl?

Is that possible?

[fashizzlepop]

The shebang line tells the terminal where to look for the Perl interpreter.
On unix:

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$ ./perlScript.pl

will read the file, see the shebang line and know to execute it with the Perl interpreter found at that location. You can install Perl wherever you like.

On windows, you will normally run it with:

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>perl perlScript.pl

which will automagically know to use the Perl interpreter to compile it. Of course, you CMD will need to know the Perl command which you would add to the environment vars if it isn't already there thanks to Strawberry Perl.

Of course in Unix, you can initiate it like the windows version and this will allow you to omit the shebang line.

shebang eq #!/usr/bin/Perl

As for your "storage" confusion, I'm not sure what you mean.