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in thread Using Perl on OS X

Try changing   #!usr/bin/perl to   #!/usr/bin/perl and see what happens then when you type ./my_program

You're running into a set of problems that are common to first-time Unix users. Things might go quite a bit better for you if you can find someone who is familiar with Unix or OS X, and buy them a beer/coffee/whatever in exchange for an hour tour.

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Re: Re: Re: Using Perl on OS X
by hmerrill (Friar) on Sep 13, 2002 at 12:41 UTC
    I 2nd dws's response - the very 1st thing you need to do is find out where Perl is installed. I have no experience on OS X, but, try
        perl -V

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    at a command prompt - that will print out the @INC array, which tells you the directories that Perl will search for modules.

    Also, on Linux you can do
        which perl

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    at a command prompt. That will display something like this:
        /usr/bin/perl

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    and that is what you should include in your #! line at the very top of each perl script. #!/usr/bin/perl -w.

    Once you've got that shebang line right, then if you do
       chmod +x my_program

and then

    ./my_program

it should run - hopefully.

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    Again, I have no experience with OS X, so I don't know how much similarity it has to Unix/Linux.

    HTH.
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Re: Re: Re: Using Perl on OS X
by cayenne (Scribe) on Sep 13, 2002 at 09:25 UTC
    Or, if you're a book person (which your tale suggests), get a book about it. Oreilly even has a unix for OS X book now.
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