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Article:		Learning the Mac OS X Terminal: Part 1
Subject:		Perl Scripts
Date:		2006-01-09 14:38:01
From:		Cruzapete
I dont know if this is too late that it wont be answered. I will so much appreciate it if it can be treated and my problem solved. I was a windows user but moved to Mac OS X. I have some perl scripts I run on MS-DOS cmd.exe but have been having problems running those scripts on Mac OS X terminal. Is there any command used for running perl scripts or how do I go about it. Thanks for responding. Cruzapete

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• Perl Scripts
  2006-11-29 09:39:26  tcomputerchip [View]
  
  
  you are probably using hard coded things that wont work on the mac. Things like "C:\windows\notepad.exe" would not work on OSX, but more specific you may have a problem with the slashes and carriage returns. When comming from windows, text files have a CT LF (Ctrl+Line Feed) OSX uses many forms of this, if you open the file with vi or pico, you would see something like ^M (this means that the OS can't read the meta character in that location, but the meta character is still in the file.) You can do a simple perl script on the Mac that searches for the meta character and replaces it with the proper "OSX" carriage returns.