This might be simply that your search path is not set correctly.
Try typing:
$ echo $path
and see what you get. If "." is not in the path, the command it's not finding is the script, not Perl or the Shell.
Or, of course, your path might not have the locations of sh or perl.
Fix up your path, and I bet you'll be golden....
Kim
On May 22, 2004, at 8:10 AM, Timothy Bailey wrote:
I recently got a new(er) computer, and I did a fresh install of Jaguar and Perl, etc. on it. Unfortunately, I'm having a very basic problem, and I'm not finding
guidance online for it.
Now, I have used MacPerl extensively, and have used Perl on UNIX systems as well, but have not installed it there. Basically, it looks like Perl is installed correctly, but it will not recognize the "shebang" first line. (I understand from online tutorials that I have it set up correctly for OSX, and Perl does exist at that path.) The program runs if I pass it directly to Perl.
Oddly enough, shell scripts (which I am less familiar with) don't seem to pay attention to the "shebang" line either. I am guessing that the problems are related.
I have played with the ownership and permissions, but it doesn't seem to fix the problem. Do need to change some other setting? If so, where?
[Fujisawa:~/Documents/MacPerl] tim% ls -l test.pl -rwxrwxrwx 1 root staff 45 May 21 23:16 test.pl [Fujisawa:~/Documents/MacPerl] tim% cat test.pl #!/usr/bin/perl -w
print "Hello World!\n";
[Fujisawa:~/Documents/MacPerl] tim% test.pl test.pl: Command not found. [Fujisawa:~/Documents/MacPerl] tim% perl test.pl Hello World! [Fujisawa:~/Documents/MacPerl] tim%
[Fujisawa:~/Documents/MacPerl] tim% ls -l *.sh -rwxrwxrwx 1 tim staff 24 May 21 22:54 d.sh [Fujisawa:~/Documents/MacPerl] tim% cat d.sh #!/bin/sh echo 'Hello'
[Fujisawa:~/Documents/MacPerl] tim% d.sh
d.sh: Command not found.
[Fujisawa:~/Documents/MacPerl] tim% /bin/sh d.sh
Hello
[Fujisawa:~/Documents/MacPerl] tim%
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for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."
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