When I run that command, I now get -

[EMAIL PROTECTED] bin]# /usr/bin/perl mailgrep.pl
Can't modify constant item in scalar assignment at mailgrep.pl line 27,
near ">"
syntax error at mailgrep.pl line 27, near ">"
syntax error at mailgrep.pl line 30, near "$queue) "
syntax error at mailgrep.pl line 64, near "<"
syntax error at mailgrep.pl line 64, near "&gt"
syntax error at mailgrep.pl line 71, near "}"
Execution of mailgrep.pl aborted due to compilation errors.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] bin]# 

Ron

-----Original Message-----
From: Matt Kettler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2004 12:00 PM
To: Ronald I. Nutter; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Mailgrep perl script problem


At 11:53 AM 8/19/2004, Ronald I. Nutter wrote:
>I have a file called perl and perl5.8.3 in the /usr/bin directory.  I 
>ran vi against the perl file and what was on the screen didn't look 
>like any text file I had ever seen.

Fair enough, I just wanted to make sure you didn't have some strange 
situation where perl was in /usr/local/bin instead of /usr/bin.


does the following command produce the same error (forcing a specific 
interpreter to be called):

         $/usr/bin/perl mailgrep.pl

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