Re: [PLUG] OT: learn perl

[Fred K Ollinger <follinge@sas.upenn.edu>]

> Any way you know of getting it to run without the ./
> in front?

Edit your path, you can do this in .bash_profile:

PATH=$PATH:.
export PATH

I usually do this, though:

PATH=$PATH:~/bin
export PATH

then I drop perl progs in ~/bin

Fred

>
> Adam
>
>
> --- "Kyle R . Burton" <mortis@voicenet.com> wrote:
> > > Speaking of learning Perl, I've started along that
> > > path myself. Here's a real "newbie" question that
> > my
> > > Perl book does not address: When I test my script
> > > (test.pl), normally I have to type
> > >
> > > perl test.pl
> > >
> > > to run the script even if its first line is
> > > #! usr/bin/perl
> > >
> > > If I just type "test.pl" or "./test.pl" at the
> > bash
> > > prompt I get a "bad interpreter" message. Is there
> > > something I can do to get my machine to recognize
> > the
> > > script?
> >
> > For the shbang [#!]  to work, it has to be
> > immediatly followed by a
> > valid path to an executable, andd your script has to
> > be executable.
> >
> >   #!/usr/bin/perl
> >
> > Should work if perl is located in /usr/bin
> >
> >
> > k
> >
> >
>
>
>
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