This seems to be more a question about your shell than about Perl. Since using one is important to you learning the other, though, I'll try to help.

When you say you navigate to the directory begperl and see the file helloworld.pl, do you mean that's where you are "in" when you run the command perl helloworld.pl and get the error? (You can tell what directory you are in by running the pwd command.) If you are in your home directory and the program is in the begperl subdirectory under your home directory, you'd need to run the command as something like perl begperl/helloworld.pl instead.

Does this help?

In reply to Re: I come in peace for I seek your wisdom dear monks :) by mr_mischief
in thread I come in peace for I seek your wisdom dear monks :) by Samurai Monkey

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