I am new to Perl programming.

I created a folder called 'Perl1'.

I wrote the following program using the 'vi' editor.
The name of the program is 'Hello1'.
I used the command 'chmod 755 Hello1' so this will be an executable one.
I copied this simple basic program from an online tutorial.

http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/Perl/basic.html

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Ni@linux-3vxw:~/Perl1> cat Hello1


#!/usr/local/bin/perl
#
# Program to do the obvious
#
print 'Hello world.'; # Print a message

Ni@linux-3vxw:~/Perl1>
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I got the following error message:

Ni@linux-3vxw:~/Perl1> ./Hello1
./Hello1: line 7: print: command not found
Ni@linux-3vxw:~/Perl1>

What is the problem?

A few possibilities.

• The shebang line (#!/usr/local/bin/perl) must be the very first line of the file - no blank lines may exist before it, and there must be be spaces or other characters before the #! - these must be the first two characters in the file.
• The script you have assumes the perl interpreter is installed in /usr/local/bin. It might not be on your system. Do find out where perl is installed on your system, do this:
  
  Code:

  which perl

  If it is not in /usr/local/bin, you will need to adjust your program file accordingly. For example, if which tells you that perl is found at /usr/bin/perl, you should alter the shebang line to look like this:
  
  Code:

  #!/usr/bin/perl

Thanks Matthew for the reply.

I have perl installed.

Ni@linux-3vxw:~> which perl
/usr/bin/perl
Ni@linux-3vxw:~>

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I changed the program now. The following are the lines.

#!/usr/bin/perl
#
# Program to do the obvious
#
print " Hello world.\n"; # Print a message
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I am getting the same old error message.
What is the problem?


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Ni@linux-3vxw:~/Perl1> ./Hello1
./Hello1: line 7: print Hello world.\n: command not found
Ni@linux-3vxw:~/Perl1>
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I just got the above error message again.

What happens when you run it with this command:

Thanks Matthew.

It worked fine.

Ni@linux-3vxw:~/Perl1> perl Hello1
Hello world.
Ni@linux-3vxw:~/Perl1>

I think then you must have some problem on the shebang line of the file. Can you post the output of this command for me (please post it in [code] tags to aid readability):

For me the following output is gibberish:

Gins,

The output is saying that the first two lines are empty.

This means that the shebang is not on the first line of the file, but on the third line, therefore the shebang is being interpreted as a comment.

If you remove the two empty lines from the front of your program, you should find that it works.

As I said:
The od output I requested shows that there are two blank lines at the start of the file. That is why it does not work as you expect.

hehe, yeah it looks a bit weird eh? I just wanted it so I could see if there were any blank lines at the start of the file. It's a useful tool mind you.

Those blank files were the root cause. If you are a newbie in these things, basic problems are always there.

Now I got it working. I thank both of you.

By the way, the command 'od -tc' is a strange one. This is for the first time I have learnt about it.
How did you find it?
Where can I read more about it?
Please tell me.
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I created a folder called Java1 and for the first time in my life I ran a java program unsuccessfully.

The following is the program:
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class Hello {
public static void main(Strings args[]){
system.out.println("Hello, world");

}
}
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The name of the program is 'Hello.java'

I copied the program from one of my UNIX books.
The book suggests to run 'javac Hello.java'.

I got the following output:

Ni@linux-3vxw:~/Java1> javac Hello.java
bash: javac: command not found
Ni@linux-3vxw:~/Java1>

The reason to get the above output is that the directory with 'javac' is not in the path.
I maybe wrong here. I am not good at guessing.

The following is my path:
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Ni@linux-3vxw:~> $PATH
bash: /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/bin:/usr/games:/opt/gnome/bin:/opt/kde3/bin:/usr/lib64/jvm/jre/bin:/usr/lib/mit/bin:/usr/lib/mit/sbin:/usr/lib/qt3/bin: No such file or directory
Ni@linux-3vxw:~>
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I looked whether java is on my system. I just used the command 'find'. It is on the system.

However, it didn't find 'javac'.
Your thoughts are welcome.

Almost all commands you will use in the shell are either programs which will have their owb manual page, or shell internals.

If you want to know what a program does, like "od" type this in a terminal:
When you're done reading a manual page, hit 'q' to quit back to the command line.

If doing "man command" doesn't find and documentation, a command might be a shell internal, in which base it will probably be documented in the bash manual page:
This is a HUGE lump of documentation, so it's helpful to know that to find a word which is the first thing on a line apart from spaces (there's a big list of commands like this in the bash manual page), you can search by typing:
/ is the command for search the space and then the * mean "any number of spaces", and then you put your search word. You can then hit 'n' to skip to the next match.

If you have konqueror installed (which is part of KDE), you can browse all the manual pages by entering this into the location/url bar:
Failing an existant manual page try:
Many programs implement this --help option, and will at least show some basic usage info if you do this.

I'm not a Java coder, but it looks like you don't have the Java development packages installed. I'm also not a Fedora user, so I can't really know what the Java development packages are called. You'd probably do well to post in the Fedora forum.

Oh, by the way, find is very slow (searching though directories is a slow process with unix-like filesystems). For this reason, and the usefulness o being able to search the whole filesystem, most modern unix-like OSes have a filesystem indexing program installed.

Instead of try:The one drawback is that the locate database is only updated every so often (usually once a day or once a week), so it will not help to locate files which have been recently created or moved.

Here's the Perl docs, inc tutorials/examples: http://perldoc.perl.org/