Thanks Felix - You're right, it's a leftover from my Win32 wimp days. All is well... Aloha => Beau.
-----Original Message----- From: Felix Geerinckx [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2002 8:55 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Executing perl in Linux on Wed, 28 Aug 2002 18:36:43 GMT, Beau E. Cox wrote: > For perl script 'test' It's not a good idea to name your script 'test', but that's another story > For perl script 'x' > bash: ./x: bad interpreter: No such file or directory This script probably has DOS-style line-endings (<CR><LF>) instead of Unix-style <LF> (Perhaps a leftover from your win32 period ;-) Your shell is looking for /usr/bin/perl<CR>, which it doesn't find of course. You should use a dos2unix-style utility to convert the script. -- felix -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]