Creating executable files in Linux
One thing I plan to be doing is writing (painfully simple) Perl scripts, and I'd like to be able to run them without explicitly calling Perl from the terminal. I appreciate that, to do this, I need to grant them execute permissions. Doing this with chmod is easy enough, but it also seems like a slightly laborious extra step. What I would like is one of two things:
Firstly, is there a way to set the execute flag when saving a file? Currently I'm experimenting with gedit and geany, but would be willing to switch to a similarly- (or better-) featured editor if it had this capability.
Failing that, is there a way to declare that all files created in a particular directory should have execute permissions?
My umask is set to 022, which should be OK, as far as I understand, but it would appear that the files are created as text files (with 666 default permissions) rather than executable files (with 777 default permissions).
Perhaps I'm just being lazy, but I figure there must be a more convenient way than chmodding every single script one creates.
Answer
Make file executable:
chmod +x file
Find location of perl:
which perl
This should return something like
/bin/perl sometimes /usr/local/bin
Then in the first line of your script add:
#!"path"/perl with path from above e.g.
#!/bin/perl
Then you can execute the file
./file
There may be some issues with the PATH, so you may want to change that as well ...