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Dude... you are going to start upsetting people by not providing the information they have requested.

Show your code.

Show us how you are *RUNNING YOUR CODE*.

What is happening is that your bash shell does not have any clue that what you're trying to run is Perl code.

Try this:

perl script.pl

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Or put:

#!/usr/bin/perl

...at the top of the script.

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Re^6: -bash: use
by KW7 (Initiate) on Jul 01, 2017 at 18:23 UTC

    Thanks - sorry about that. This isn't my code, from CPAN

    Use several modules in command line:

    % perl -Muse=CGI,DBI,PPI -e '...'
 
# Import several modules at once
use use qw[ strict warnings methods invoker ];
 
# Pass options as array refs
use use 'strict', 'warnings', 'HTTP::Status' => [':constants'];
 
# Pass required versions after module names
use use '5.12.0', 'HTTP::Status' => '6.00' => [':constants'];
 
# ...or in your own module, importing on behalf of its caller:
package MY::Macro;
sub import {
    use use;
    local @_ = qw[ Module1 Module2 ];
    goto &use::use;
}

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      I think we need to take several steps back here.

      What are you trying to do? What is your situation? What is the exact code you are trying to run?

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