How to sort find results

[Jeffrey Ellis]

Hi, David--

Thanks :)

# which perl
/usr/bin/perl
#head date_sort
head: date_sort: No such file or directory

All My Best,
Jeffrey




on 11/7/05 3:17 PM, David Fleck at david.fleck at mchsi.com wrote:

> On Mon, 7 Nov 2005, Jeffrey Ellis wrote:
>> Y'know, being a newbie at something is about as stupid as things generally
>> get. So I'm feeling totally dumb at the moment.
> 
> The feeling will go away after a while, really.
> 
>> But when I try:
>> 
>> # ./date_sort /
>> 
>> I get:
>> 
>> use: bad interpreter: No such file or directory
> 
> Sounds like it can't find perl, or there's a syntax error.  (Perl is
> installed, right?) Paste the results of the following commands into a mail
> message:
> 
>    which perl
> 
>    head date_sort
> 
> and we can see if there's anything obvious there.  The script may be
> pointing to a non-existant executable.
> 
> And also note that, as currently written, the perl script does not have an
> equivalent to the '-x' argument for 'find'.  We might be able to get that
> in there, but probably should worry about just getting the script working
> first.
> 
> 
> --
> David Fleck
> david.fleck at mchsi.com
>