Hello World
To create a simple Perl script, we can use the text editor of choice. For short scripts vi
or vim
works well, as does gedit
if you want to work in GUI. For larger projects an IDE may help. Often, the IDE will allow you to change the object name easily throughout the script and provide expansion of object names. In this chapter, we will make use of very simple scripts so we will continue to use vi
.
We will create a $HOME/bin/hello.pl
file to produce the output we want:
#!/usr/bin/perl print("Hello World\n");
The file still needs to be in a directory within our PATH
variable; hence, we create $HOME/bin
. If it is not in the PATH
variable then we will need to specify the full or relative path of the file, as with bash.
The file will need to ...
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