[ale] running perl script

Elanchezhian Sivanandam elan at qpackets.com
Mon Oct 28 11:11:12 EST 2002


thanks john.
    it is fantastic and works well.

cheers../elan


John Wells wrote:

> Elanchezian,
> 
> If you're running on unix, it's easy.
> 
> On the first line of your script, put a "#!" and the path to your perl
> executable.  If your perl executable is at /usr/bin/perl, this would look
> like:
> 
> #!/usr/bin/perl
> 
> Then, you can run the script (after making it executable with "chmod 755
> script" or equivalent) like:
> 
> ../myscriptname.pl
> 
> This can work on Windows as well, with a bit more configuration. Can't
> help you there.  Check out http://www.perlmonks.org for that sort of info.
> 
> John
> 
> 
> Elanchezhian Sivanandam said:
> 
>> hi,
>>        i have replaced a shell script by a perl script.
>>        Now instead of running the shell script my team mates have to run
>> 
>> the perl script.
>> 
>>        so, my team mates have to remember whenever they run it that they
>> 
>> have to
>>        give the command like
>> 
>>        "perl perl.pl argument[1] argument[2] argument[3]" instead of the
>> 
>>        "shell_script argument[1] argument[2] argument[3]"
>> 
>>        I want to make this transition easy and smooth.......
>>        so i want to name the perl script same as the shell script and
>> execute the command the same way as the shell_script.
>> 
>>        i mean i don't want to give "perl perlscript.pl "every time
>> rather the old way....
>>        any suggestions?????
>> 
>>        thanks for ur reply.
>> 
>> --
>> cheers../elan
>> 
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>> 
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