I'd like to think that I know at least a <i>little</i> bit about how Unix works (I know the basic navigational commands, and a few other things in the "OS X Missing Manual"), but I'm at a loss ...

I did some searching and I couldn't find anything as simple (and silly) and this. I have 5 files with the .pl extension on them. I simply want to know how to execute them. I am running windows 2000 ...

BASH is a Unix shell and command language which can run Shell Script files. You do not need to install Ubuntu or any other Linux Distros unless your scripts need the ...