Hey all, I'm new to this list, and I am new to Perl as well. My primary reason for learning Perl is in an attempt to automate more tasks in my other programs, but, it also seems to me to be an interesting language that would increase my general knowledge as a programmer.
And so it was that I started searching the web for tutorials and the suchlike. I came across one, http://www.ebb.org/PickingUpPerl/pickingUpPerl_toc.html, and decided after a few chapters to write my own test, just to see how much I'd picked up. Unfortunately, I'm new to Unix, and am unfamiliar with the terminal. I wrote up a pl file in pico, titled hw.pl, and the following is a copy of the script inside. #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; print "Hello World!\n"; Then, when, in the terminal, I typed: hw.pl while in the same directory, I got the following message. tcsh: hw.pl: Command not found. My meanderings in the Terminal showed that /usr/bin/perl does indeed exist. I also tried chmod 755 on the file, but didn't change anything. I'm running the latest version of Panther. If any of you can let me know what I'm doing wrong, please do. TIA -- Isaac Sherman MotaSoft Software http://www.motaSoftware.com/ Personal Protection Links: http://www.safetyAndSecurity.us http://www.m18.us
