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c has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I am facing a really unusual problem that has cropped up on me twice now. I've downloaded a couple of commercial perl scripts which were each zipped up into a Win32 .zip package. I unzip the files on a win machine then scp them over to a linux box. When I run the script on the linux box with a cli ./scriptname.pl, I receive:

bash: ./scriptname.pl: No such file or directory

However, when I open the file and add a "-w" flag to the #!/usr/bin/perl line, the script is found and ran.

Can someone explain why I am seeing this type of response?

humbly -c