From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 2 15:57:23 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AECAE16A53B for ; Sun, 2 Jul 2006 15:57:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yifriedman@yahoo.com) Received: from web39104.mail.mud.yahoo.com (web39104.mail.mud.yahoo.com [209.191.87.32]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A0A5944316 for ; Sun, 2 Jul 2006 15:36:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from yifriedman@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 99748 invoked by uid 60001); 2 Jul 2006 15:36:21 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=wDby3Ag5M1h+cDybhjnoWFZOLH/ZXMnt/V8+5YsQeZ0dVIUkEIRnBDAkSTe6MYUpnRGRggNqU+xpHzdiOIJzH5NnRKQNk9X7KK/zLo5dkx/n8Z1taPFn1nWWWlUXU44/U7SO7cbFgT638u+Xjb9R2HYPWpseyeoxzEbNug1RSKU= ; Message-ID: <20060702153621.99746.qmail@web39104.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Received: from [128.59.6.172] by web39104.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sun, 02 Jul 2006 08:36:21 PDT Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2006 08:36:21 -0700 (PDT) From: Isaac Friedman To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sun, 02 Jul 2006 16:06:11 +0000 Subject: another newbie X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2006 15:57:23 -0000 I am new to UNIX but know the basics of getting around, writing simple shell scripts, etc. Is there any way to use a short perl program as a shell script? __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com