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by wang_li 660 days ago
In most of the variants of exec*() there are separate arguments for the thing to be executed and the *argv[] list. Argv[0] being the executable is just a convention. In perl $ARGV[0] is the first positional parameter. In

    $ perl myscript.pl a b c
$ARGV[0] is "a".