The problem is on line 17. Reroute the neutrino flow through the jefferies tubes on deck 36 and it should clear right up.

(See How (Not) To Ask A Question. There's no way anyone's going to be able to give you more than a vague set of pointers which might by some remote chance match up with that extremely vague problem description. Maybe name.pl doesn't produce any output on alternate weekdays. Maybe it does, but evil capuchin monkeys have hijacked your ubuntu install's libc and replaced it with twigs and berries. No one here has any idea what some random name.pl does ether.)

(I mean there's the obvious stab in the dark, that you're suffering from buffering; but again that's a vague stab.)

What program? Is it something you wrote or something you got somewhere else?

It's possible that everything is working fine, if you're running a program that does not produce output. I can't imagine why a program would produce no output if it was meant to be run from the command line, but it's possible. And if you're new to Perl and writing a simple program, you might just have forgotten to write anything, or perhaps are accidentally writing a blank variable. For example, this would produce no output without telling me I'd done something wrong due to my failure to use strict and use warnings:

#!/usr/bin/perl

my $Nothing = "Hello World\n";
print $nothing;
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Maybe try a simple test, like running

 perl -e 'print "Hello!\n";'
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Sounds like it is being run but doing nothing. You should check the usual suspects.

  >which perl
  >more name.pl
  # etc.
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Plus, put use strict; use warnings; at the top of your Perl script. And maybe a print "done\n" at the bottom. Whatever is up might become clear.

No, seriously, how do you expect anyone to know what name.pl is supposed to do? Perhaps this program does not output anything to the screen.

I place my bet on that you just misinterpret things. Just because a program doesn't display anything on STDOUT doesn't mean nothing happened.

perl -d -e 1
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