>In a message dated 3/5/2004 6:11:53 PM Eastern Standard Time, >[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >i have downloaded cygwin and perl 5.0 comes along with it. >How can i access perl from cygwin. My purpose is only to be able to write a script in perl >and run it using cygwin. Can anyone help me with this.. > >regards >aalok
To be specific, I think perl 5.8.2 comes with cygwin :-) You access perl through cygwin like normal. Just run cygwin and run, 'perl /path/to/script.pl'. Or, if you put the path (#/usr/local/bin/perl on cygwin) you can run it as "/path/to/script.pl" (Remember though, if you're in the directory of the perl script, it isn't "script.pl" it is "./script.pl") If you have already been coding Perl on a Windows system (just assumed your on a Windows system because you got cygwin) it doesn't take too much getting use to since you've had to learn Perl for Unix and then figure out to exceptions for Windows. cygwin is a relief after you've been fumbling with mc and ActiveState. -will (the above message is double rot13 encoded for security reasons) Most Useful Perl Modules -strict -warnings -Devel::DProf -Benchmark -B::Deparse -Data::Dumper -Clone (a Godsend) -Perl::Tidy -Beautifier
