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From: davidn@sdev.usn.blaze.net.au (David Nugent)
To: lleung@synesthesia.com (Lawrence Leung)
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Subject: Re: perl script recognition
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Lawrence Leung writes:
> I've installed FreeBSD 2.1.5Release with Perl installed from the menus.
> Running perl scripts by directly calling the interpreter works fine, but
> the system does not want to run any scripts purely by typing in the name of
> the script (i.e. "myscript.pl").

Is . in your $PATH? (no, don't put it there, just type ./myscript.pl
instead).

Is the script executable?  If not, chmod +x myscript.pl


David Nugent, Unique Computing Pty Ltd - Melbourne, Australia
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