Re: [MacPerl-WebCGI] need help with My first perl program

Bill Becker writes:
> At 21:45 +0200 08/23/2002, Detlef Lindenthal wrote:
> >
> >A statement
> >    . test.pl
> >means: The lines of the file "test.pl"
> >are interpreted as UNIX statements.
> >But UNIX won't understand Perl statements.
> >
> 
> Yes it will, because the first line of his script is the 
> hash-bang/path of the perl interpreter.
> 
> In general, this will work with nearly any unix. Even the OS/390 USS 
> understands it.

Solaris 8 and bash certainly don't.  I think you mean

  ./test.pl

For Bourne shell derivatives, ". " means "interpret the
following file as containing shell commands".  The hash-bang
line is treated as a comment and ignored.  The C-shell
derivative equivalent is "source <file>".  In all shells,
"./test.pl" or "/opt/test.pl" means "run this executable" --
whether it's a Perl script, compiled object file, or what have
you.

Liming, you should be able to do either of these (assuming your
test.pl is in the directory /opt):

    cd /opt
    ./test.pl

or

    /opt/test.pl

Sean