Re: [PLUG] OT: learn perl

["Kyle R . Burton" <mortis@voicenet.com>]

> 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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