OK as you and Larry kindly suggest I will go back to basics and re-look at the problem report. Please know that I did read the Cygwin site carefully before submitting so as to not upset and to also respect the folks out here.
Before I go and end this thread can you tell me if the Perl.exe I have in Cygwin looks correct? I can cd /usr/bin and the Perl there is: dex...@usendexteml1c /usr/bin $ ls -la Perl.exe -rwxrwxrw-+ 1 dextem mkgroup-l-d 34304 Jul 19 2007 Perl.exe I am not seeing the 'x' for execute however and maybe this is the issue? Thank you, Mike -----Original Message----- From: cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Jeremy Bopp Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2009 10:27 AM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Changing HOME for PERL dexter_mich...@emc.com wrote: > Also the command od -c test1-mike.pl, shows \n ONLY throughout the file > excepts a couple sots near the end of the file. Do I need to worry > about those couple spots \n\n doubles appears. No, you don't need to worry about \n\n sequences. They just indicate that you have empty lines in the file. Try removing one of the empty lines and see out the od -c output changes. > ================================================== > dex...@usendexteml1c ~/PERL > $ od -c test1-mike.pl > 0000000 # ! / u s r / b i n / p e r l \n > 0000020 \n $ x = 3 ; \n $ c = " h > 0000040 e " ; \n $ s = $ c x $ > 0000060 x ; \n $ b = " b y e " ; \n p > 0000100 r i n t " $ s \ n " ; > 0000120 # h e h e h e \n p > 0000140 r i n t $ s . " \ n " ; > 0000160 # h e h e h e \n \n > 0000200 $ a = $ s . $ b ; \n p r > 0000220 i n t $ a ; > 0000240 # h e h e h e b y > 0000260 e \n \n > 0000263 > ================================================== > > Now when I run the file I am getting same error without the ^M > > dex...@usendexteml1c ~/PERL > $ ./test1-mike.pl > bash: ./test1-mike.pl: /usr/bin/perl: bad interpreter: Permission denied I went ahead and recreated your script based on your od -c output, but as expected, I can't recreate your problem without purposely breaking my Cygwin installation. Only by removing all execute permissions from my Perl program at /usr/bin/perl am I able to get the error you receive. Now I just took a closer look at what you did earlier to work around this problem when you changed the SheBang line to: #!/cygdrive/c/PERL/BIN/perl What you have done by making this change is direct Cygwin to run what is most likely a Windows-native Perl installation installed into C:\PERL in order to interpret your script. Since this change works for you, this Perl installation is obviously good; however, this is *not* the Perl installation under Cygwin. Since your Cygwin-based Perl installation seems to be lacking some necessary permissions, it appears that there is something wrong with your Cygwin installation. Following the problem reporting guidelines (http://cygwin.com/problems.html) will provide more information which will hopefully help the Cygwin maintainers identify the cause of the issue. Good luck. -Jeremy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
