Bad interpreter

[Crundy]

I'm getting the below message when trying to run a perl script:

-bash-3.00$ ./search.pl
: bad interpreter: No such file or directory

But if I run it straight through perl then it's fine:

-bash-3.00$ perl search.pl
Content-type: text/html

So the usual problem is odd characters (e.g. CR / LF) in the shebang line right? But I complelely deleted and rewrote the shebang line and I'm still getting the error. opening the file using vi shows no odd characters. Path to perl seems to be fine:

-bash-3.00$ which perl
/usr/bin/perl

Head of perl script:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use Mysql;
require "subs.cgi";
&parse_form();

Does anyone know what's wrong?


C:\DOS:>
C:\DOS:>RUN
RUN DOS RUN!!

 

[travs69]

Does it do it with every perl script or just that one?

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Travis - Those Who Say It Cannot Be Done Are Usually Interrupted by Someone Else Doing It; Give the wrong symptoms, get the wrong solutions;

 

[max1x]

check your path; echo $PATH and if it's not there add it there, so you can run perl from everywhere.

 

[Crundy]

It's definiely in the path, as I ran:

-bash-3.00$ which perl
/usr/bin/perl

A simple hello world script works:

#!/usr/bin/perl
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print "Hello world!!";

So it must be odd characters somewhere. Unfortunately I can't seem to find them or get rid og them. The server doesn't have dos2unix installed either.

C:\DOS:>
C:\DOS:>RUN
RUN DOS RUN!!

 

[Crundy]

Nevermind, I managed to get the administrator to install dos2unix and it's working now.

C:\DOS:>
C:\DOS:>RUN
RUN DOS RUN!!

 

[travs69]

Normally on a windows machine it doesn't need dos2unix but needs to have .pl scripts associated to perl (which dos2unix might being doing for you). The #! line is ignored in the windows enviroment. If you need a windows perl I would suggest activestate above all else. It's free and it has great module support. If I remember correctly dos2unix has a pretty old version and you are going to have to manually compile and scripts.

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Travis - Those Who Say It Cannot Be Done Are Usually Interrupted by Someone Else Doing It; Give the wrong symptoms, get the wrong solutions;