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nick;
Thanks for the lucid explanation and for the generous examples,you have
gotten me reading some further explanatory perl sites,(not the shiny
oyster thingies).I find the command line explanations particularly
interesting. Best Wishes through the Snowy Night, Anthony K 

On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 14:55 -0700, Nick Frost wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
>