In the previous article<\/a> I brought the Linux and (hopefully) Mac users on board with creating a text file, then finding it in the terminal. Earlier,<\/a> I described how to do it under Windows. Now, I imagine, “everyone” knows how to, on their home system, create a text file, then find it in the terminal.<\/p>\n The goal of today’s article is to create a PERL script, find it in the terminal, and run it. Once again, there is a dichotomy between Windows and Linux\/Mac.\u00a0 This article will cover Windows; the next one, Linux\/Mac.<\/p>\n Windows users:<\/p>\n In Notepad, open a new text file, then type the following:<\/p>\n print “Hello from PERL on Jun30, 2014!\\n\\n”;<\/span><\/p>\n Save the file. Let’s imagine you call it \u00a0myfirstperl\u00a0<\/span> then save it to your folder (aka directory) “my perl programs” (or whatever you called the folder). Now, follow these steps:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n perl myfirstperl.txt<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n If it worked, the terminal should reply with<\/p>\n Hello from PERL on Jun30,2014!<\/span><\/p>\n Hopefully, the procedure worked for you.\u00a0 If so, you have successfully begun programming with PERL:\u00a0 congratulations!<\/p>\n\n