[plug] dumb Perl Q

[Richard Henry]

You don't install perl scripts, you just run them.

Assuming the perl executable is located at /usr/bin/perl, you would run the
script like this:

1) Go into the directory your script is in (it can be anywhere, your home
dir, whatever).

2) Make sure the first line in the script points to your perl executable,
eg:

      #!/usr/bin/perl                (in this case)

3) Make the script executable

      chmod +x myScriptName

4) Run the script

      ./myScriptName <whatever arguments you need to pass it>

Done.
Rich.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sol [mailto:solhanna at dingoblue.net.au] 
> Sent: Wednesday, 20 March 2002 5:00 PM
> To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
> Subject: [plug] dumb Perl Q
> 
> 
> 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)? 
> Do I need to compile the source using some sort of compiler (like gcc 
> but for perl)?
> 
> This really could make things way easy. If only my little, pea brain 
> knew how. [:-[]
> 
> thanks,
> sol
> 
>