What does this mean?

[Bill who?]

I am in the process of learning perl. My first program was simply:

#!/usr/bin/perl
print ("Hello, World\n");

I saved the file as hello then performed:

chmod +x hello

I type in hello at the command prompt and get an error. I looked into the directory that stores hello and it shows up like this:

hello*

The "hello" is green and the asterick is gray. What does this mean?

P.S. I can run the program by typing:

perl hello :confused:

[YaRness]

try "./hello" and see what it says.

and if yer gonna say you got an error, it helps those who want to help you if you say what the error was.

[kmj]

the green and the * mean that it's an executable file.

like YaR said, if you want more help on the error, you'll have to be more specific.

[EyesWideOpen]

Originally posted by Bill who?:
My first program was simply:

#!/usr/bin/perl
print ("Hello, World\n");

Just so you know, there's no need for the parenthesis (sp?) in the print statement. i.e., print "Hello, World!\n"; is all you need.

[klamath]

And you should probably be using 'use warnings' and 'use strict' (for this, it's obviously overkill but it's good to get used to beneficial habits).

[TheLinuxDuck]

Don't forget -w (in the shebang line, as <STRONG>#!/usr/bin/perl -w</STRONG>). That, along with <STRONG>use strict;</STRONG> will help you out with perl code.