Using perl

akurtis · 12-07-2003, 12:57 PM

Ive programmed in perl on windows. There you just ran i DOS prompt. How do i use perl in linux. I suppose it has something to do with the terminal but what commands do i run?

Thanks
Alex

david_ross · 12-07-2003, 01:06 PM

Quite simply "perl"

If you have a basic perl script you can spcify the interpreter on the shebang line:

Code:

#!/usr/bin/perl

print "Hello World!";

exit;

Make it executable:
chmod 700 /path/to/script.pl

Then run it:
/path/to/script.pl

akurtis · 12-07-2003, 01:10 PM

Thanks