David Gilden wrote: > > Trying to run a perl script in OSX shell, and It is not working, what am I missing? > > here is what I am typing: > > perl -e test.pl
The -e switch treats its argument as a string containing perl code: perl -e 'print "hello\n"' If you want perl to run a _file_ then you don't need the -e switch: perl test.pl > #!/usr/bin/perl Because this is the first line of your program you can run it like this: ./test.pl John -- use Perl; program fulfillment -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
