Front page | perl.beginners |
Postings from March 2002
Re: problems with help commands
From:
Tanton Gibbs
Date:
March 12, 2002 12:31
Subject:
Re: problems with help commands
Message ID:
022c01c1ca04$8b4947c0$1bd8550a@brooklyn
perlre is a POD (Plain Old Documentation) file that you can view using
perldoc. It is not an executable. To see it, do
perldoc perlre
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joe Echavarria" <joe_echavarria@yahoo.com>
To: <beginners@perl.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 3:29 PM
Subject: problems with help commands
>
> On my perl distribution i can't execute "perlre", why?
> i always get an errore perlre: not found. When i try
> to find the executable file i jus find
> ------------------------------------
> /usr/perl5/5.00503/pod/perlre.pod
> /usr/perl5/5.00503/pod/perlref.pod
> /usr/perl5/5.00503/pod/perlreftut.pod
> /usr/perl5/man/man1/perlre.1
> /usr/perl5/man/man1/perlref.1
> /usr/perl5/man/man1/perlreftut.1
> ------------------------------------
> Why ?, how can i be able to see the "perlre" help?
> I am having the same problem with perlsyn,
> perlfunc,perlop and many others.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Joe.
>
> --- Tyler Longren <tyler@captainjack.com> wrote:
> > type this at your command line:
> > echo $PATH
> >
> > That should display a few folders (/usr/local/bin,
> > /usr/bin, etc...).
> >
> > your perldoc executable should be located in a
> > folder listed in your $PATH.
> >
> > Good luck,
> > Tyler
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Joe Echavarria" <joe_echavarria@yahoo.com>
> > To: "Hanson, Robert" <RHanson@APTEGRITY.com>;
> > <beginners@perl.org>
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 1:15 PM
> > Subject: RE: Perldoc question
> >
> >
> > > I really don ' t understand what you mean. I am
> > new to
> > > Unix and Perl.
> > > Please help me out here. What i should to ?,
> > read or
> > > what ?
> > >
> > > Thanks.
> > >
> > > Joe.
> > > --- "Hanson, Robert" <RHanson@APTEGRITY.com>
> > wrote:
> > > > perldoc isn't in your path most likely.
> > > >
> > > > Check your path environment variable (echo
> > $PATH),
> > > > and make sure that
> > > > perldoc is in one of those directories. If I
> > had to
> > > > guess you probably have
> > > > a symlink to the perl executable in your path,
> > but
> > > > not the actual bin/
> > > > directory of perl.
> > > >
> > > > Rob
> > > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Joe Echavarria
> > > > [mailto:joe_echavarria@yahoo.com]
> > > > Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 1:48 PM
> > > > To: beginners@perl.org
> > > > Subject: Perldoc question
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > hi there,
> > > >
> > > > On my unix box when i try to get perl help
> > from
> > > > the
> > > > command line using "perldoc print" or "perlfunc"
> > i
> > > > get
> > > > these errores.
> > > >
> > > > perlfunc: not found
> > > > perldoc: not found
> > > >
> > > > How can i fix this problem ?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks.
> > > >
> > > > Joe.
> > >
> > >
> > > __________________________________________________
> > > Do You Yahoo!?
> > > Try FREE Yahoo! Mail - the world's greatest free
> > email!
> > > http://mail.yahoo.com/
> > >
> > > --
> > > To unsubscribe, e-mail:
> > beginners-unsubscribe@perl.org
> > > For additional commands, e-mail:
> > beginners-help@perl.org
> > >
> >
> >
> > --
> > To unsubscribe, e-mail:
> > beginners-unsubscribe@perl.org
> > For additional commands, e-mail:
> > beginners-help@perl.org
> >
>
>
> __________________________________________________
> Do You Yahoo!?
> Try FREE Yahoo! Mail - the world's greatest free email!
> http://mail.yahoo.com/
>
> --
> To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscribe@perl.org
> For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-help@perl.org
>