Retract: Running a script

2001-04-17 Thread Nicholas Bacon
I was able to get the script running by adding 'perl' to the path. Thus, the command line read perl txt2html.pl sample.txt > sample.html This did not work on the original box I was working on, but on a different box, which makes me think it is something to do with the system setup, maybe

Running a script

2001-04-17 Thread Nicholas Bacon
I downloaded a script that can convert a plain text file to HTML, called txt2html.pl . It starts with #!/usr/bin/perl, which should mean I can treat it as an executable at the prompt, after I've performed a chmod to make the file executable. I did this and at the prompt, I type txt2htm