Good point about the semi-colon, I missed that (too much python).
FWIW it is good practice to use :
#!/usr/bin/env perl
rather than:
#!/usr/bin/perl
At the start of your script, so that perl can be found if it is relocated.
François
On Oct 5, 2012, at 4:54 PM, Doug McNutt <[email protected]> wrote:
> At 20:43 +0100 10/5/12, John Delacour wrote:
>> I installed Mountain Lion yesterday, probably the worst decision I ever
>> made! Some of Apple's own main apps now seem to be buggier than they were 5
>> years ago with no useful new features.
>>
>> None of my UNIX filters in BBEdit are now working.
>>
>> For example this script
>>
>> #!/usr/bin/perl
>> while (<>) {
>> print "* $_"
>> }
>>
>> should put an asterisk at the beginning of each line in the front document
>> but nothing happens at all with this script or any other.
>>
>> Mountain Lion has caused me so much trouble that I'm now exhausted, so
>> perhaps I'm missing something obvious.
>>
>> Any help out there?
>>
>> JD
>
> You might need a semicolon after the print, But it is the last line between
> {}s so whonoze?
>
> Apple thinks UNIX users are out to destroy their machines.
>
> Others, in the SciTech area, have reported that many UNIX executables have
> been moved from /usr/bin/ to something like /usr/share/bin/... though Apple
> itself uses perl so perhaps not.
>
> Check which perl top see if a usable perl is found with your $PATH and your
> path might not be what you think when calling from within bbedit.
>
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