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in thread making perl executable

I gave the perl script as an input to the pp like pp -o hello hello.pl but it creates only a read only file not executable

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Re^5: making perl executable
by marto (Cardinal) on Jul 05, 2013 at 14:53 UTC

    Using the same example on a test script it generates an executable for me. What is the output of ls -al hello?

      i am on windows , so I did dir , it shows hello with no extension

        Did you try renaming it and adding the .exe extension?