James E Keenan wrote:
>
> I'm having trouble getting my (first-ever real-world) Perl script to run as
> successfully on a Unix server as it does on my own Win98 system.
> I then FTP the files to a server running Apache and Perl 5.005_02 "built for
> rhapsody." The server is actually a Mac OS X server. I telnet
> to that server and type:
>
> bash-2.02$perl abc0.pl
>
> I get an error message reading:
>
> on #! line at abc0.pl line 1. (Note that the screen prints a single
> wordspace before "on #!....")
Have you made sure that the scripts don't have CR characters in them?
Unix expects to see just newline characters (0x0a), not CR/LF pairs
like DOS likes.
You may be able to fix this by just choosing text mode in your ftp
transfer.
You can see by doing "od -c abc0.pl | more"
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