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3) And finally, after everything is coded and functioning, how would I go about making it excuteable from /usr/bin (or wherever) so that i can just call the name of the program and have it run?
it has to be executable and in your PATH.
put it in /usr/local/bin and make sure it is executable (chmod +x file.pl). if you don't have root (which you should need to put something in /usr/local/bin), put it in a subdirectory of your home dir (such as ~/bin/) and add that directory to your PATH by adding export PATH="$PATH:~/bin" to the end of your .bashrc.
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