Howto edit a Perl file

mickeyboy · 09-29-2003, 05:27 PM

How do you edit a Perl file?

thanks
jim

vanhoof · 09-29-2003, 11:21 PM

Typically with any old text editor... Can you see the contents of the file when you cat it:

# cat <file>

--chris

mickeyboy · 09-30-2003, 04:49 AM

Yes but, you can't read it ,it's just a bunch of scramled characters.

Jim Tate

UltimaGuy · 09-30-2003, 06:24 AM

If it is a bunch of characters, it is not a perl file. It must be some other binary file, and perl files end with an extension *.pl.

m0rl0ck · 09-30-2003, 06:25 AM

Could be compressed, on the other hand perl tends to look like that anyway

can your read it with zcat? bzcat?

vanhoof · 09-30-2003, 03:41 PM

Try this:

# file <filename>

Perl files can be named anything. Post back the output of the file command.

--chris