"not found" error is coming eventhough the file is present.why??

[Bhavani2007]

Hi,

not found exception is coming when i run the perl file on unix machine even though the file is there.and i have the permissions to run.
The error is :

/llo/reports/addsamp> addsamp.pl
su: addsamp.pl: not found.

Why it is coming..??? any idea...

 

[Ghodmode]

We'll need to see the code of addsamp.pl which reads the file.

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[Bhavani2007]

I remove all the code from addsamp.pl and just I put one print statement.Eventhough I am getting same error.

The code is:

#!/usr/local/bin/perl
print "I am inside of perl";

 

[Ghodmode]

I think that bash is having a problem with your shebang line (#!). I've made this mistake many times before. Make sure that your perl command is actually in /usr/local/bin.

Mine is in /usr/bin and I'll bet that yours is, too:

@home:~/dev$ which perl
/usr/bin/perl

Also, to verify the test, you can execute your script as an argument to the perl command. i.e.: [tt]perl addsamp.pl[/tt] This should allow perl to execute the script without even looking at the first shebang line.

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[travs69]

try
perl $filename.pl
if that works
try
./$filename.pl

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