Re: [PLUG] OT: learn perl

[Adam Schaible <taxindeath@yahoo.com>]

Thanks for helping, Kyle. I edited the path and did

chmod 777 test.pl 

and it now runs fine when I type
./test.pl

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

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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