From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from executioner.lis.net.au([203.35.83.3]) (1712 bytes) by braille.uwo.ca via smail with P:esmtp/D:aliases/T:pipe (sender: ) id for ; Thu, 16 Mar 2000 17:42:58 -0500 (EST) (Smail-3.2.0.102 1998-Aug-2 #2 built 1999-Sep-5) Received: from uucp by executioner.lis.net.au with local-rmail (Exim 2.05 #1) id 12Viyo-0000Rg-00 (Debian); Fri, 17 Mar 2000 09:42:58 +1100 Received: from kerry by gotss.eu.org with local (Exim 2.05 #1) id 12Vixo-0002kD-00 (Debian); Fri, 17 Mar 2000 09:41:56 +1100 Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 09:41:55 +1100 From: Kerry Hoath To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Cc: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: Perl scripts Message-ID: <20000317094155.B10511@gotss1.gotss.ml.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: ; from Geoff Shang on Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 07:26:26AM +1100 List-Id: It has to be executable; and it should have #!/usr/bin/perl at the top; make sure it doesn't say #!/usr/local/bin/perl or it mightn't go. You can also type perl scriptname just as you can type sh scriptname under the shell. Regards, Kerry. On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 07:26:26AM +1100, Geoff Shang wrote: > Hi all: > > OK, can someone tell me how to execute a perl script? I assumed that I > could run it like any other since it has the /usr/bin/perl thing at the > top, but apparently not. > > Geoff. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- -- Kerry Hoath: kerry@gotss.eu.org Alternates: kerry@emusys.com.au kerry@gotss.spice.net.au or khoath@lis.net.au ICQ UIN: 8226547