I am running OS X and, basically, I wanted to set up a directory where I could drop some Perl executables and use them without having to type
$perl /this/is/the/path/name.pl
every time I wanted to use one. So I modified my .bash_profile to add a filepath for a directory that sits on my desktop that I want to drop executables in. I modified my .bash_profile by adding
PATH=$PATH:/Users/Wes/Desktop/Perl_dir; export PATH
Now, it finds the Perl files I want but denies me permission to them like so
-bash: /Users/Wes/Desktop/Perl_dir/phylo.pl: Permission denied
How can I fix this? Thank you in advance.