[SW-TECH] shebang perl not work in Unix
AREA: Scripting/Perl PROBLEM: This problem bothered me for a while so I wanna share what I found out: My perl script starts with the standard shebang: #!/usr/bin/perl But does not pass it to perl, instead it complains: "bad interpreter: No such file or directory" ROOT CAUSE: I initially edited my file on Windows using Notepad++ . DOS/Windows has a different newline format and puts extra unwanted control characters in the file. SOLUTION: If found the solution on the web in this link : The solution is to cleanup my script removing unnecessary CR/LF (Carriage Return/Line feed character) that Unix/Linux shell does not like. I created the script below based on the newsgroup I mentioned and added exec permission: dos2linux.sh #!/bin/bash echo "$0: Cleanup text files edited in DOS/Windows for Unix format by removing CR/LF" perl -pi -e 's/\r\n$/\n/' $* I cleaned up my script by running as follows: dos2linux.sh scriptname.sh After this my perl script work...