Re: qsh commands

[Bob Larkin <blarkin@xxxxxx>]

Also, make sure the QUTILB library is in your library list.

"Chad S. Lauritsen" wrote:

> Hi,
> i'm a unix-geek turned as/400 geek by my company.
> i just downloaded the perl distro for AS/400 and want to use it. It
> looks like that went okay, as I'm able to say from qsh
>
> /qsys.lib/perldist.lib/perl.pgm -v
>
> and it prints the output of perl -v as expected on a unix/windows
> system. one thing that I'm confused about though, is why we don't seem
> to have any of the UNIX utilties mentioned in the README for the perl
> distro.
>
> to wit, at one point in the readme, it says to make your life easier use
> 'ln -s' to make a 'symbolic link' to the perl program in /usr/local/bin
> or whereever. i didn't know that symbolic links were supported at all
> (even in the IFS) when i try to say 'ln' it says command not found. in
> fact it's that way for any conceivable unix utility. until now, i
> thought that un*x utilities would not be included on the AS/400 because
> it's not a unix machine, but it seems I am missing something. how do I
> get the utilities?
>
> --
> * Chad S. Lauritsen, Systems Administrator                       *
> * Perfection Learning Corporation                                *
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