Perl in Shell

HarshV has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hey guys, I have read many threads for this question, but couldn't succeed. I have a shell script in which I am trying to call a perl script. It's just going to be one liner command. The exit code this command generates is 2. Not sure, what's this. Any help is appreciated. I had tried few ways: 1) perl path/to/the/script/ABC.pl 2) path/to/the/script/ABC.pl 3) path//to//the//script//ABC.pl

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Re: Perl in Shell by Anonymous Monk on Sep 23, 2014 at 15:20 UTC
I assume this is *NIX and not Windows? Your (1) should work if `perl` is in your `PATH`, (2) should work if the script has executable permissions and starts with a shebang line appropriate for your system (e.g. "`#!/usr/bin/perl`" or "`#!/usr/bin/env perl`"), (3) might work but isn't preferable, the extra slashes don't do anything but add confusion. However, this isn't a "one liner". A one-liner would be something like `perl -e 'print "Hello, World!"'` (i.e. the entire program is on the command line and not in a file) See also Running Perl programs Please see How do I post a question effectively?: Please show your shell script (wrapped in `<code>` tags), as well as the error messages you're getting (if any).	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Perl in Shell by Anonymous Monk on Sep 23, 2014 at 19:04 UTC
Please mark updates to your node, see How do I change/delete my post?. Without knowing what your code looks like, we don't know what could be causing an exit code of 2 (perhaps `exit 2;`?). Please show your code, or reduce your code down to a small, self-contained example that reproduces the problem.	[reply] [d/l]