Question: I have looked through a number of tutorials, but I still can't figure out what I am doing wrong... I am trying the code below (in a .pl Perl file, as an executable):

```
#!/usr/bin/perl

perl -e 'print "Hello";' 

```

I run this script and get: 

> 
> Execution of /home/user1/Desktop/file\_backups.pl aborted due to compilation errors.
> 
> 
> 

(I'm new to using Perl to call the Linux command line.)

Answer: 
Just type on the command line (not in a file):

```
perl -e 'print "Hello World\n";'

```

This is only really good for one-liners. Longer scripts need their own file.
This should work. Double quotes outside single quotes inside ;)

```
perl -e "print 'Hello'"

```