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Linuxcare: Dear Lina: Pulling the Perl From the Linux Shell

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Sep 16, 1999

[ Thanks to Matthew Cunningham for this
link. ]

“My friend runs FreeBSD and I run Linux. Despite this severe
ideological difference, we actually do get along fine. I recently
started writing Perl scripts as a hobby, and my friend gave me a
sample script to get started. Here it is:

#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w

print "what is your name? ";
$NAME = ;
print "nHello, $NAMEn";

“The name of the file is hello.pl - and I even made it
executable with chmod 777 hello.pl. But when I type
./hello.pl I get this error: ./hello.pl: Command not
found.
No matter what I do, I can’t get this thing working.
Can you help me?”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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