Re: Why do I have to type 'perl programname.pl' ???

[Brent Michalski]

as long as you have your:

#!/usr/bin/perl

line at the top... The only other thing you should need to do is to make
the program executable....

chmod 755 programname.pl

the 755 is just an example, not necessarily right in all cases... you may
want to read up a bit on unix permissions to get a complete grasp of what's
going on...


good luck...

brent



                                                                                       
        
                    "Bryan Gmyrek"                                                     
        
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How do I set up my Linux system so that I don't need to type:
$perl programname.pl
but just
$programname.pl
to get the program to run??
Thanks!