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Article:		Learning the Mac OS X Terminal, Part 4
Subject:		Perl Scripts
Date:		2006-01-09 14:52:13
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
  2006-05-26 01:30:22  samueljenningshughes@yahoo.com [View]
  
  
  The best method to use is, at the top of the scripts, write "#!/usr/bin/perl", which tells a terminal to execute this script using perl.
  
  Next, you should open Terminal.app, which is in /Applications/Utilities.
  
  Type "cd location-of-perl-script".
  
  Then type "chmod a+x perl-script-filename" to make it executable.
  
  lastly, to run the script, either type "perl perl-script-filename" or "./perl-script-filename", the latter if you added "#!/usr/bin/perl" to the top of the script. this is done of course in the Terminal.app, and in the directory of which the script is located.