Programming

Hi,

somebody told me that if you want to use the perl languege then the interpreter of perl should be place like /usr/local/bin/perl1
but in my linux/unix system it is not their.So can i use it or not.If i can use it then how?

Which Linux distribution and version are you using? I have Redhat 6.2 and it is in /usr/bin. When you installed Linux, it may not have gotten installed. You may need to install it yourself, which is usually pretty easy. You can get a copy from several sites like www.cpan.org. One easy thing you can do on your system to see if you have perl or not is to run "which perl" or "which perl5". This should tell you where it is at if it is installed and in your path. You may want to try using find as well.

Are you familiar with RPMs ?

many linux distributions like redhat and debian have a package management system; this is probably your best bet. for redhat, e.g., if you're on the net you can just copy this into your root shell

rpm -i <ftp-path>

which should install the latest and greatest or whatever
perl you wish.

I would suggest that you buy your Linux specific and
Systems administration book(s) or browse your specific Linux web site(s).

Best Wishes!

i believe it is stored in /usr/bin/perl and if you want to write perl code you need to put this #!/usr/bin/perl at the beginning of all your scripts for them to run assuming that it is stored in /usr/bin/perl.

i guess you didn't install perl env,go to www.perl.com, download a latest version,then install it to your machine,you can create the directory /usr/local in your machine,and perl can automatic install on /usr/local/bin .