On 8/24/05, David Van Ginneken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [~]# perl tst
> What happens? If that works. That works, it was included in my original posting. > > Try this: > [~]# cat tst > #!/usr/bin/perl -w > print "Hello world\n"; Here goes: [~]# cat tst #!/usr/bin/perl -w print "Hello world\n"; [~]# ./tst bash: ./tst: /usr/bin/perl: bad interpreter: Toegang geweigerd And about the carriage return: I was already familiar with that problem (also mentioned in FAQ7). Although the scripts reside on a smb share, they have unix-like line endings: [~]# xxd tst 0000000: 2321 2f75 7372 2f62 696e 2f70 6572 6c20 #!/usr/bin/perl 0000010: 2d77 0a70 7269 6e74 2022 4865 6c6c 6f20 -w.print "Hello 0000020: 776f 726c 645c 6e22 3b0a world\n";. Perhaps I should have mentioned, I'm not quite a beginner... Problem not yet solved, but thanks Kris -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>