Re: use: command not found error

My guess at first sight of your description is that the shebang line - the line that points to the interpreter (on unixy systems most often: #!/usr/bin/perl) is either missing, wrong in its syntax, does not point to an existing Perl interpreter or has been misplaced (not as first line).

Perhaps some more code would help us to properly diagnose the problem? Be sure to enclose your code in <code></code> tags.

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Re^2: use: command not found error by kushtun (Initiate) on May 04, 2007 at 18:15 UTC
One route on unix systems for the "where is this user's perl?" is to use: `#!/usr/bin/env perl` [download] which gets whatever the user would get by typing "perl" at the command line. There may be multiple perl versions in different locations, leading to strange behavior. If /usr/bin/env is not there, there are bigger problems.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: use: command not found error by blazar (Canon) on May 04, 2007 at 19:11 UTC
which gets whatever the user would get by typing "perl" at the command line. There may be multiple perl versions in different locations, leading to strange behavior. If /usr/bin/env is not there, there are bigger problems. Indeed this is often debated, and many think that `env` suffers from the same problem it aims at solving.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: use: command not found error by Anonymous Monk on Jun 10, 2009 at 22:02 UTC
i have the same problem - i want to run the following perl script helloworld.pl #!/usr/bin/perl print "Hello World!\n"; it runs if i type perl helloworld.pl in the command line but, if i try to run the script without calling perl explicitly in the command line (i.e. helloworld), i get "command not found". i'm absolutely sure that i'm running the program from the correct path and that perl is located in /usr/bin/ - i used which perl. what's going on guys?	[reply]
Re^2: use: command not found error by Anonymous Monk on Oct 02, 2009 at 01:26 UTC
This post worked for me from the standpoint that my shebang line was not the first line. Oh the details!!!	[reply]


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