Ok so- I have a .pl file that prints to cli:

print "wpeofkwpoef";

If I run the .pl directly, it prints just fine. ./damnit.pl

I have an ln -s link to it in /usr/local/bin/damn.

If I run it from cli there /usr/local/bin/damn, it runs (the code later on even changes files; it works), but it never prints.

This same code usta work in perl like 15 years ago lol.

important to note to test, I made .sh script that just does:

#!/bin/bash
echo 'wefwe';

And then did an ln -s to it and it prints the wefew. So .sh can do that from the link but perl demands it be done from the actual file not the link.

Ubuntu 18.04 $ perl -v This is perl 5, version 26, subversion 1 (v5.26.1) built for x86_64-linux-gnu-thread-multi (with 67 registered patches, see perl -V for more detail)

Thanks monks, sorry for the lack of < code> tags but the code is so minimal. m

In reply to printing to stdout from a soft ln -s doesn't show up by mrkrinkle

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