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[Nick Frost]

a wrote:
>
> Can anyone give me an specific example of where and how the script
> should be placed and then run.
>   
PERL is an interpreted (not compiled) language, like Python.

So, you can put a PERL script anywhere and point it at the PERL you want 
to use.  For example;

nickf at nickf-desktop:/tmp$ which perl
/usr/bin/perl

perl --version

This is perl, v5.10.0 built for x86_64-linux-gnu-thread-multi

> ./hello.pl
> hello,world

> nickf at nickf-desktop:/tmp$ cat hello.pl

> #!/usr/bin/perl
>
> print "hello,world\n";
or you can run perl on the command line and feed it a script.

Sounds like you want to run a script, I'd say put in in;

/usr/local/<scriptname>

or in /opt or in /usr/local/bin/

doesn't really matter.  You can use cron to run the script at intervals, 
unless you run a script that has interval loops and does constant output 
(I have a Python script that does this).

And yes, the perms should be 700 or 755 on your script (i.e. it should 
be executable by the user running it).

ls -al hello.pl
-rwx------ 1 nickf nickf 40 2009-12-07 14:50 hello.pl

Hope that helps,

-Nick



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