[plug] dumb Perl Q

[Trent Lloyd]

At 04:49 PM 20/03/2002 +0800, you wrote:
>I've recently been working with digital photos for the first time and 
>having spent several hours changing the resolution of 100s of jpegs I 
>realized I'd been doing it wrong. A hunt on the internet helped me come 
>across a Perl script that uses Imagemagick to make thumbnails out of jpegs 
>a whole directory at a time. The problem is I don't know the first thing 
>about how Perl works!
>All I need to know though is how to "install" the script. The page gave 
>instructions on how to run the script but assumed a knowledge of Perl.
>Do I save it in /usr/local/src (Or somewhere else)?ahh this is rather simple
you can save it where you like

depending on your systyem

./perlscript.pl might be fine, or you may need to do chmox u+x perlscript.pl

if all else fails type
"perl -w perlscript.pl"
i think its -w
>Do I need to compile the source using some sort of compiler (like gcc but 
>for perl)?

perl isnt compiled, its a runtime script


>This really could make things way easy. If only my little, pea brain knew 
>how. [:-[]

we all gota learn one day


>thanks,
>sol
>

Trent Lloyd

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