On a Unix system, in order to execute a Perl script, it has to have what is called "execute" permission.
No.

It may, or may not, be needed. It's certainly not needed in the way the book told the OP how to execute the script: perl helloworld.pl. Not also that if you try to execute a program for which you need execute permission, the shell will not complain about a missing file or directory name, but tell it will either tell you "command not found" (if a $PATH search failed to find it - this only looks for programs with execute permission), or "permission denied" (if you try execute a program by using an absolute or relative path).

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