Re^2: Running Perl Scripts on a Mac?

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Re^3: Running Perl Scripts on a Mac? by larryp (Deacon) on Mar 14, 2005 at 22:26 UTC
Open Terminal, and type the following at the commahd line: `echo $PATH` [download] Letter case counts. :) Terminal will return a colon-separated string that contains your path information. You could put your scripts into any of the directories listed, however, I would recommend that you create a 'bin' directory in your Home directory and put your scripts there. Then, to execute your scripts, you'd type the following on the command line: `perl $HOME/bin/scriptname.pl` [download] or `perl /Users/yourusername/bin/scriptname.pl` [download] You can add directories to your PATH variable, but I'll leave that exciting task to you. (Hint: On the command line, type `man bash`.) :) HTH, /Larry	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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Re^3: Running Perl Scripts on a Mac?
by larryp (Deacon) on Mar 14, 2005 at 22:26 UTC

Open Terminal, and type the following at the commahd line:

echo $PATH
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Letter case counts. :) Terminal will return a colon-separated string that contains your path information. You could put your scripts into any of the directories listed, however, I would recommend that you create a 'bin' directory in your Home directory and put your scripts there. Then, to execute your scripts, you'd type the following on the command line:

perl $HOME/bin/scriptname.pl
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perl /Users/yourusername/bin/scriptname.pl
[download]

You can add directories to your PATH variable, but I'll leave that exciting task to you. (Hint: On the command line, type man bash.) :)

HTH,

/Larry

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