perlre is a POD (Plain Old Documentation) file that you can view using perldoc. It is not an executable. To see it, do perldoc perlre ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joe Echavarria" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 3:29 PM Subject: problems with help commands
> > On my perl distribution i can't execute "perlre", why? > i always get an errore perlre: not found. When i try > to find the executable file i jus find > ------------------------------------ > /usr/perl5/5.00503/pod/perlre.pod > /usr/perl5/5.00503/pod/perlref.pod > /usr/perl5/5.00503/pod/perlreftut.pod > /usr/perl5/man/man1/perlre.1 > /usr/perl5/man/man1/perlref.1 > /usr/perl5/man/man1/perlreftut.1 > ------------------------------------ > Why ?, how can i be able to see the "perlre" help? > I am having the same problem with perlsyn, > perlfunc,perlop and many others. > > Thanks. > > Joe. > > --- Tyler Longren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > type this at your command line: > > echo $PATH > > > > That should display a few folders (/usr/local/bin, > > /usr/bin, etc...). > > > > your perldoc executable should be located in a > > folder listed in your $PATH. > > > > Good luck, > > Tyler > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Joe Echavarria" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "Hanson, Robert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 1:15 PM > > Subject: RE: Perldoc question > > > > > > > I really don ' t understand what you mean. I am > > new to > > > Unix and Perl. > > > Please help me out here. What i should to ?, > > read or > > > what ? > > > > > > Thanks. > > > > > > Joe. > > > --- "Hanson, Robert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > > perldoc isn't in your path most likely. > > > > > > > > Check your path environment variable (echo > > $PATH), > > > > and make sure that > > > > perldoc is in one of those directories. If I > > had to > > > > guess you probably have > > > > a symlink to the perl executable in your path, > > but > > > > not the actual bin/ > > > > directory of perl. > > > > > > > > Rob > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > From: Joe Echavarria > > > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > > Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 1:48 PM > > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Subject: Perldoc question > > > > > > > > > > > > hi there, > > > > > > > > On my unix box when i try to get perl help > > from > > > > the > > > > command line using "perldoc print" or "perlfunc" > > i > > > > get > > > > these errores. > > > > > > > > perlfunc: not found > > > > perldoc: not found > > > > > > > > How can i fix this problem ? > > > > > > > > Thanks. > > > > > > > > Joe. > > > > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > > > Do You Yahoo!? > > > Try FREE Yahoo! Mail - the world's greatest free > > email! > > > http://mail.yahoo.com/ > > > > > > -- > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > For additional commands, e-mail: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Try FREE Yahoo! Mail - the world's greatest free email! > http://mail.yahoo.com/ > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
