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Firstly, the abuse of 'cat' as I suggested is quite wonky, indeed. 
I still sometimes do it like that though, for no reason other than typing
quicker than I think at times. 

> Sounds like you don't have . in your path or haven't rehashed 
> since  you created the file  'script.pl'.    

I just wanted to say quickly that I'd recommend *not* ever taking '.' into
your path - when someone wants you to execute something and places it into a
directory where both have write rights and names it like the binary you're
supposed to call, it's going to get executed first.