Re: How to run Perl script at Mac OS (Darwin) Release?

On Mar 9, 2008, at 12:31 PM, [email protected] wrote:
>
> On Mar 7, 2008, at 7:48 PM, Larry Prall wrote:
>
>> Change the she-bang (#!) line to read:
>>
>> #!/usr/bin/perl -w
>>
>> That's the location of the default perl installation on OS X.
>
> That _may_ be the problem, but it is not necessarily the problem. I  
> believe that if there was no perl interpreter in the path that the  
> OP specified, bash would say -
>
> "bash: ./test1i.pl: #!/usr/local/ActivePerl-5.10/bin/perl: bad  
> interpreter: No such file or directory"
>
> But instead bash is saying "Command not found." So the OP may in  
> fact have a perl interpreter in the path specified on the command  
> line, but he is not calling the script correctly. So advising the  
> OP to change the shebang may be premature.
>
> The script was not called correctly from the command line, of that  
> we can be certain.

I think he's missing the execution bit (where someone already  
spotted) and since bash on MacOS X doesn't have the current directory  
in PATH, one must execute the program like:

$ ./test1.pl

Instead of

$ test1.pl

In the same directory, or change the PATH to use the current working  
directory

$ PATH=$PATH:. test1.pl

Hope this helps