Hi Nick, You are trying to run a file from the Document folder on your hard disk, not your home directory... You need to do it like this
perl ~/Documents/simple_print Or perl /Users/username/Documents/simple_print But I suspect you will also need to make the file executable first, with this command chmod a+x ~/Documents/simple_print Cheers adam > I am just learning to use Perl on OS 10.3. I am not an experienced > Unix programmer, so I am probably doing something very basically > wrong. > > My first "Hello World" script is not executing. I created a Plain > Text script using TextEdit and saved it in my Documents folder with > the name "simple_print". > > In Terminal, I give a pwd command and get back the reply: /Users/username > > When I type: perl /Documents/simple_print, I get the diagnostic > Can't open perl script "/Documents/simple_print": No such file or directory > > That seems to mean I am making some kind of mistake with the path name. > > The first line in the program is: #! /usr/bin/perl > > What is wrong? > > > > Nick -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
