Perl problems

eblack black.eric at gmail.com
Thu May 12 14:12:04 UTC 2005


Hi,

Unless you have '.' in your path, you need to type:

./secede2.pl names.txt

Also make sure the file is executable.

Eric


On Thu, 2005-05-12 at 15:04 +0200, Vincenzo Di Massa wrote:
> I think python would be a better language to learn.
> Perl is a very used, great language but... old!
> Python allows you to understand the programming basics + OOP.
> There are python tutorials that you can do in an afternoon.
> Python has many more bindings, and is the de facto counterpart for VBA.
> 
> Perl could come later if you like to undertsand it.
> 
> Ciao
> Vincenzo
> 
> Alle 03:52, giovedì 12 maggio 2005, Joe Wamsley ha scritto:
> > Running Ubuntu Hoary:
> >
> > I'm in the process of trying learn Perl as my first programming language
> > and ran into a snag that I can't seem to correct. Basically what I'm
> > trying to do is run it as a stand-alone application. It should work, but
> > for some reason it wont execute. So I tried a whereis perl and it told
> > me that it was installed at /usr/bin/perl. I also tried a perl -v and
> > that works without problem. Here is the script I'm running from the
> > secede2.pl file.
> >
> > #!/usr/bin/perl -p
> > s/CA/Republic of California/;
> >
> > At the shell I type secede2.pl names.txt (note:both files are together
> > in the same directory) and it gives me an error message saying "bash:
> > secede2.pl: command not found" I also tried removing the #! to see if
> > that worked and no luck. The only way it will run is by typing perl
> > secede2.pl names.txt. Any other ideas on what I can try or is this
> > something I will just have to deal with.
> >
> >
> > Thanks,Joe
> 





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