Question on Perl (.pl) association

[Igor Pechtchanski]

Martin,

David was giving an *example* of a solution that worked for him.  FWICS,
he has specific restrictions on what he can do with perl scripts.

Again, since you have no such restrictions, simply change the '#!' line at
the top of your .pl files to '#!/usr/bin/perl -w' (or add it at the very
top if it isn't there).  This should be enough to allow you to invoke .pl
files (or any other files, for that matter) from Cygwin shells using perl
(after appropriately 'chmod +x'ing them, of course).  This answer has been
given in at least 3 forms so far -- why are we still having this discussion?
	Igor

On Wed, 17 Mar 2004, Martin Gainty wrote:

> Hello David
> I do not have tipftp.pl on my box although I found this from Allen Gordon
> http://snallen.lsu.edu/lib/doc/commands/armstrong_tftp_server.shtml
> Vim editor is not yet installed..although I would be open to specific
> suggestions on how to accomplish the associative task with these utilities.
> I was thinking that the only other way to acomplish this is to install a
> preprocessor for command line input to sniff for .pl extension which would
> invoke cygwin perl passing the argument with .pl extension along as an
> argument.
> There has to be an easier way.
> Thanks,
> Martin
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "zzapper" <david<at>tvis<dot>co<dot>uk>
> To: <cygwin<at>cygwin<dot>com>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 11:50 AM
> Subject: Re: Question on Perl (.pl) association
>
> > Hi,
> > Currently I'm getting round this by writing a simple wrap for my perl
> > scripts. I use ActiveState Perl for historical reasons.
> >
> > eg
> >
> > #!/bin/bash
> > # tipftp
> > # description :Wrap for tipftp.pl
> > c:/usr/local/bin/perl c:/cygwin/usr/local/bin/tipftp.pl
> >
> > zzapper (vim, cygwin, wiki & zsh)

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