Few questions/suggestions: Which shell are you on? i.e echo $SHELL whats the location of the perl binary: i.e which perl Can you invoke the program using 'use strict' and let us know the output Can you try this: perl -e 'print "Hello World"'
Cheers, Parag On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 7:25 PM, Mark <herrpoe...@hailmail.net> wrote: > Hi. Perl newbie here. I'm on a MBP using Leopard (10.5.8). Perl is > pre-installed: /usr/bin/perl. > > I can't get a simple "Hello world" script to work. Here's the script (saved > as test.pl). > > #!/usr/bin/perl -w > print "Hello world!\n"; > > Permissions are set to 755. In a terminal application (iTerm) I changed > directory to the location of the script, and typed > perl test.pl > Nothing happens -- i.e. no "Hello world!", and I get a new command prompt. > > Typing > perl -v > produces: > This is perl, v5.8.8 built for darwin-thread-multi-2level > ... > and so on. > > Typing > perl -c Test.pl > yields > Test.pl syntax OK > > So how come no "Hello world!"? > > I really want Perl to have me at Hello World. What should I do? > > - Mark > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org > For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org > http://learn.perl.org/ > > >
