another newbie

[Andrew Pantyukhin]

On 7/2/06, Isaac Friedman <yifriedman at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I am new to UNIX but know the basics of getting
> around, writing simple shell scripts, etc. Is there
> any way to use a short perl program as a shell script?

sat64% cat << __END__ > ./script.pl
#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w
print "Hello world!\n";
__END__
sat64% chmod a+x ./script.pl
sat64% ./script.pl