Hello,

I created the following script but i'm trying to figure out why i keep getting an error.

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use warnings;

my $baseDir = '/export/home/omcadmin/bin';
my $attachment = "$baseDir/message.txt";

my $from = 'xxx@xxx.com';
my $to = 'xxx@xxx.com';
my $cc = 'xxx@xxx.com';
my $subj = 'Testing';
my $body = 'TEST';


my $cmd = "uuencode $attachment |mailx, '-s',$subj, '-c', $cc, $to, "-f$from"";
system ("$cmd");



The error i receive is:
email.pl: use: not found
email.pl: use: not found
email.pl: my: not found
email.pl: my: not found
email.pl: my: not found
email.pl: my: not found
email.pl: my: not found
email.pl: my: not found
email.pl: my: not found
email.pl: my: not found
email.pl: syntax error at line 19: `system' unexpected



Any suggestions?

My first guess is that it appears to not be finding perl, but is instead trying to run as a shell program... See if perl exists in the location that your script is checking:

ls -ail /usr/bin/perl

which perl

find / -name perl -print

Seems your $cmd = ..... statement has wong double quote -
Try -
my $cmd = "uuencode $attachment |mailx -s $subj -c $cc $to -f $from";
Why are you making single quote around the mail options ?

I don't think it is require

You can check where perl is installed at the first place and then provide the path to perl interpreter
Check where perl installed and the version


perl -V

Perl is installed in the directory in which im running my script

can you just paste the out put of your perl path from which perl command

You can check if the path to the module are in @INC path ?
type in command promt :

perl -e 'use strict;'

if your path are ok this should work fine

What should happen when i execute the perl -e 'use strict;' on the command prompt. I didn't get anything on the prompt.

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If i attempt to execute a different script it will work from the directory in which i'm running the current script that fails. This tells me that the path is correct.

identify a script that is working.

head -1 scriptname