Re: I come in peace for I seek your wisdom dear monks :)

This seems to be more a question about your shell than about Perl. Since using one is important to you learning the other, though, I'll try to help.

When you say you navigate to the directory begperl and see the file helloworld.pl, do you mean that's where you are "in" when you run the command perl helloworld.pl and get the error? (You can tell what directory you are in by running the pwd command.) If you are in your home directory and the program is in the begperl subdirectory under your home directory, you'd need to run the command as something like perl begperl/helloworld.pl instead.

Does this help?

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Re^2: I come in peace for I seek your wisdom dear monks :) by Samurai Monkey (Novice) on Dec 08, 2010 at 05:56 UTC
Thank you very much for your help - yes it def, solved my problem. Aren't the answers to seemingly complex problems usually an easy one? lol I didn't realise that there was a default folder on the Ubuntu terminal was set on. Any clue as to how you can set it to a different default folder? Again, thank you very much for your help :)	[reply]
Re^3: I come in peace for I seek your wisdom dear monks :) by mr_mischief (Monsignor) on Dec 08, 2010 at 17:47 UTC
There are ways to do that. The default default is a pretty good one tested by millions of other users for years. If you give it a couple of weeks of use you'll probably agree. Plus, if you change it now, it'll be a nonstandard hurdle to getting advice from people who wouldn't expect that sort of change.	[reply]