upload cgi in binary workaround

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

A common new user error is to ftp a perl script from a MSFT windows machine to a unix machine in binary mode. As near as I can tell UNIX perls do not like a shbang line like:

"#!/usr/bin/perl -wT\r\n"
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However tacking a space onto the end of the shbang line llke this:

"#!/usr/bin/perl -wT \r\n"
[download]

...works just fine

Is there are reason not to distribute my scripts w/ a space at the end of the shbang?

email: mandog

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Re: upload cgi in binary workaround by DamnDirtyApe (Curate) on Jul 27, 2002 at 06:20 UTC
Seems to work fine either way for me. As an aside, if you've got scripts that have been uploaded incorrectly, you can fix them like so: `perl -p -i -e 's/\r\n/\n/' my_prog.pl` [download] _______________ D a m n D i r t y A p e Home Node \| Email	[reply] [d/l]
Re: upload cgi in binary workaround by blakem (Monsignor) on Sep 22, 2002 at 22:00 UTC
The case you have to look out for is `#!/usr/bin/perl\r\n` [download] That will choke on unixish systems, because it will look for the binary, "perl\r". See Turning off warnings causes the script to fail :( for a case of someone getting bitten by it. -Blake reading old posts....	[reply] [d/l]