At 11:10 AM -0700 5/26/11, Derek wrote:
Hello, I am getting the following error:bash: /var/www/html/bugzilla/email_in.pl: line 2: syntax error near unexpected token `(' bash: /var/www/html/bugzilla/email_in.pl: line 2: `use Cwd qw(abs_path);' The contents of this file are: #!/usr/bin/perl use Cwd qw(abs_path); Thats all. I know basically nothing about perl. I am a Java programmer mostly. I am getting this same problem in the bugzilla email_in.pl scripts. So I trimmed it down to the shortest amount of lines that seem to be the problem. I tried to look up what the lines are doing but I cant figure it out why its complaining of an error. I can run this on the command line with no errors: perl -e 'use Cwd qw(abs_path);' Why would I not be able to run this in a script but I can on the command line?
Because bash is not running the Perl interpreter, but trying to execute the file as bash commands. That is why the first part of each error line is "bash:". Something is wrong with your first line. Try this:
perl /var/www/html/bugzilla/email_in.pl: line 2: syntax error near and see what you get. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
