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in thread Syntax Error

I am executing it using: . ./test.pl

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Re: Syntax Error
by Abigail-II (Bishop) on Jan 21, 2004 at 14:37 UTC
    Well, that's wrong. You are telling your current shell to execute the program in the current shell (without a fork). Remove the first dot.

    Abigail

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