in reply to perl file permissions

You could put 
pvi () {
   touch $*;
   chmod 755 $*;
   vim $*
}

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into your ~/.bashrc and use pvi to edit your perl files.

--shmem 

_($_=" "x(1<<5)."?\n".q·/)Oo.  G°\        /
                              /\_¯/(q    /
----------------------------  \__(m.====·.(_("always off the crowd"))."·
");sub _{s./.($e="'Itrs `mnsgdq Gdbj O`qkdq")=~y/"-y/#-z/;$e.e && print}

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