run perl scripts from PATH folder in command prompt

Question

I want to run a perl script located in a PATH directory. Now command prompt does not search arguments in PATH directories. It just search files in current directory.

C:\Users\dg>echo %PATH%
...;C:\Users\dg\abc

C:\Users\dg>dir /a-d /b abc
abc.pl

C:\Users\dg>perl abc.pl
Can't open perl script "abc.pl": No such file or directory

Any solution or work around?

Answer 1

Just abc.pl should work for you if Perl is installed properly. Note, if you use perl abc.pl, bash won't search the path for abc.pl either: it will look in the current working directory and die if the file doesn't exist

If you want Perl to search the path for the script file then use the -S option

perl -S abc.pl