I'm really embarassed for asking this. Or this could be another case of failing to RTFM.

I'm writing a little program to monitor my disks on my laptop, because I'm never too sure of the GUI tools on my CentOS/Gnome install. So I want to write a little Perl script to notify me when my disks are safe to remove, and I'm a noob writing scripts to learn. Since I heard that coding is one of the best ways to learn programming skills, and reading other code.

Anyway, I choose to write a little script to try my skills at working a little event loop, since my program will require some form of event loop.

Scratchpad http://perlmonks.org/?node_id=880110

I set some loop control variables, and then I go into my loop to write some noob-code to play around with the event loop. But my Perl interpreter keeps saying that '=: command not found'. So I can't define my loop control vars. I did use any lexical vars since this was supposed to be a quick and dirty little thing, but now it's been about two hours and I'm trying to make dinner at the same time.

Also, I tried to do a multi-line comment to layout my pseudo-code, but perl would not accept my comments in code when I used: 

=for comment
hey my comments go here along with some pseudocode:
awesome_code( $var12 ) unless ( $response == 1 );

=cut

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