Robert -- ...and then Robert Warning said... % % Hello Everyone!
Hello! % Well after using php to help make a couple web pages I needed a % scripting language for client side apps. Since php is best left for web % development I decided to learn perl because php is based on perl and I Good plan :-) % thought it would be a fairly easy undertaking to get a good grasp in % perl and it has been so far. My only problem is that when I put % #!/usr/bin/perl at the beginning of any of my programs it wont run. I Interesting. % get an output from the shell that says /usr/bin/perl: bad interpreter: % Permission denied. I could only run the script if I typed in: perl % PATH_TO_SCRIPT. Doing what any good linux user would do I checked the Well, that says there is a perl out there somewhere, then. That's good. % permissions of the perl interpreter. The permissions were set so anyone % could execute it. Then I thought something was wrong with the What do you get when you try which perl at your shell prompt? Use that instead of /usr/bin/perl in your shebang (#!) line and your script should work just fine. That first line isn't any perl magic; it tells the OS how to process the file by pointing it to the interpreter (in this case, perl, and specifically the perl in /usr/bin, which may or may not be the one you find by running perl scriptname at the command line). HTH & HAND :-D -- David T-G * It's easier to fight for one's principles (play) [EMAIL PROTECTED] * than to live up to them. -- fortune cookie (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.justpickone.org/davidtg/ Shpx gur Pbzzhavpngvbaf Qrprapl Npg!
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