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To run this code, you'll only need to put it in a text file.  Save it as "hello.pl", and then you can execute the following to run it from either cygwin or [[bash]]:
* chmod +x hello.pl
* ./hello.pl

Alternatively you can simply type:
* perl hello.pl

{{code|text=<syntaxhighlight lang="perl">#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
print "Hello world!\n";</syntaxhighlight>}}