In my previous post<\/a> I instructed Windows users through the execution of their first PERL script. Now, Linux and Mac users, it’s your turn.<\/p>\n Open your text editor and type in the following:<\/p>\n #!\/usr\/bin\/perl<\/span><\/p>\n print “Hello, how are you?–from PERL!\\n\\n”;<\/span><\/p>\n Let’s imagine you call your file july101<\/span> and save it in your “My_perl_programs” folder. In my experience, you can save it as type “all files” or type “text files” – just as long as it’s actually plain text.<\/p>\n Now, open your terminal and go into your “My_perl_programs” directory. Enter the command ls<\/span> to make sure your file july101<\/span> is listed. Assuming you see it, enter the following command:<\/p>\n perl july101<\/span><\/p>\n If the process works, the terminal should reply with<\/p>\n Hello, how are you?–from PERL!<\/span><\/p>\n If you receive that greeting, congratulations! You, Linux or Mac user, have successfully executed your first PERL script.<\/p>\n The next few posts, we’ll review what we did during this one and last one. To quote Phil Collins in his hit song Against All Odds<\/a>:<\/p>\n “There’s so much I have to say to you\/So many reasons why….”<\/p>\n We’ll get to it all, in the coming days:)<\/p>\n