I performed a test, and was surprised by the results. Can anyone tell me why the result occurs?
File: -rwxr-xr-x 1 mt staff 25 Apr 26 19:07 hw.pl contents: print "Hello, World.\n"; command ../hw.pl results: Hello, World. Note the missing "she-bang" line: #!/usr/bin/perl -w Note also that I didn't tell the shell "how" to execute the file. So the file is set to executable, but I thought it should error. Is that line not necessary on a Mac for some reason? How is this a Mac thing? It is not functional on other unix machines I have access to (and I tried various shells, including tcsh & bash). I repeated the experiment with no ".pl" extension, that isn't it. I suspect that it is a shell issue of some kind. /Michael Turner
