How Do I Run a Perl Program in Ubuntu?
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How do I run a Perl script in Linux?

There are many ways to run Perl scripts on Linux:

  1. Run the “perl” command with the Perl script included in the command line. …
  2. Run the “perl” command with the Perl script supplied from the standard input stream. …
  3. Run the “perl” command with the Perl script supplied in a file. …
  4. Run Perl script files as commands.

How do I run a .pl file?

3 Answers

  1. Go into Windows Explorer.
  2. Find a file that ends in a *. pl suffix.
  3. Right click on it and bring up the Context menu.
  4. Select “Open With” (It might just be Open… with an ellipse after it. …
  5. On the bottom of the dialog box is a checkbox (Something like open all extensions with this program).
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