root# perl -e 'print"Hello World\n";'
Hello World
root#

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cnow> perl -e 'print "hello world\n";'
Can't open perl script "-e": Permission denied
cnow>

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ls -al /usr/local/bin/perl 
-r-xr-xr-x   1 root     other     818096 Jan 24 2002 /usr/local/bin/perl*

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cnow> cat testPerl.pl
#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w

print "This is a test\n";
cnow> ./testPerl.pl
This is a test
cnow>