How to properly run Perl "one liner" command line scripts?

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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.)

source: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3220215/how-to-properly-run-perl-one-liner-command-line-scripts
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