What is the path to the Perl executable?

The absolute path to the Perl executable on Hostginger Hosting's servers is /bin/perl. Generally you do not need to include the full path when you run Perl scripts from the command line. Just type the following command, replacing filename with the name of your script file:

perl filename
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