in reply to Can files with extension ".command" on MacOSX be perl scripts? What is a way to let users execute Perl scripts on macosx from Finder?

you can use perl for that.
just take your ordinary perl code and insert #!/usr/bin/perl as the first line to let the shell know, that it's a perl script and give the file a chmod to make it executable.
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Re^2: Can files with extension ".command" on MacOSX be perl scripts? What is a way to let users execute Perl scripts on macosx from Finder?
by Anonymous Monk on Feb 14, 2005 at 14:05 UTC
    Thanks for the answer! But do I have to use .command extension, or Finder is smart enough to try to execute any executable file with any name that has sheebang line using system() syscall?
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      finder identifies files by it's extension, so you have to name it foo.command.
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