<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> If the file is executable, try ./secede2.pl (Note the period before the /) Alfred, Stephen R Laniel wrote: <blockquote cite="mid20050512015938.GA16860@TheloniousMonk.laniels.org" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 09:52:24PM -0400, Joe Wamsley wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">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. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> Is the script executable? Do an ls -la secede2.pl The results should look like so: (21:58) slaniel@TheloniousMonk:~/test$ ls -la secede2.pl -rwxr-xr-x 1 slaniel slaniel 0 2005-05-11 21:58 secede2.pl There may be more or fewer 'x's when you list the file, but there should be at least one. I'm not sure about your level of expertise, so maybe this is dumbing down the answer too much. Let me know if I should adjust the level of my response. :-) </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>