[plug] dumb Perl Q

[Sol]

Thanks Richard and Trent,

I got the script "thumb.pl"( 
http://www.wiredfool.com/discuss/msgReader$206) to execute from my home 
directory easy-peasy. But there are syntax errors in the script!

I'm going to look carefully at the error message and see if I can get 
this script to work the way it supposed to. It may have been a dodgy 
cut'n'paste on my part. But at least I've got a foot in the door now!

Ta,

Sol

Richard Henry wrote:

>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
>>
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