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From: "Andrew Pantyukhin" <infofarmer@gmail.com>
To: "Isaac Friedman" <yifriedman@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: another newbie
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On 7/2/06, Isaac Friedman <yifriedman@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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?

sat64% cat << __END__ > ./script.pl
#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w
print "Hello world!\n";
__END__
sat64% chmod a+x ./script.pl
sat64% ./script.pl