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With windows you may need to reboot; however, just navigate to the dir where the script.pl file lives and run 'perl script.pl'. Replace 'script.pl' with your unique file name....

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Re^2: Newbie Question
by Loops (Curate) on Nov 14, 2014 at 21:52 UTC

    This will work, and you shouldn't even need to type "perl" first as long as the script name ends in .pl