On Mon, 17 Sep 2001 13:22:40 -0400 Sebastian Canagaratna <s-canagaratna@onu.edu> wrote: > (3) gives: syntax error near unexpected token '(<*' I haven't read the whole thread, but of course if you don't put a #!/usr/bin/perl line at the top of your script the shell tries to execute it itself and will fail. chj