I'm evidently doing something stupid. I have about 2 dozen working perl programs on my laptop (Fedora 21) which work.

And one that doesn't in ways that I don't quite understand. First, it compiles fine: perl -c tells me the syntax is ok. Second, it runs when I use it as an argument to perl: perl inv (inv is the program's name). When I try to run it by using inv, I get this: 

/home/emc/bin/inv: line 1: #!/usr/bin/perl: No such file or directory
/home/emc/bin/inv: line 4: use: command not found
/home/emc/bin/inv: line 5: use: command not found
/home/emc/bin/inv: line 7: my: command not found
/home/emc/bin/inv: line 9: my: command not found
/home/emc/bin/inv: line 11: my: command not found

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I'm stumped. I basically use the same few header lines for all my perl programs: the shebang line, use warnings, and use strict.

I know somebody here has a clue, so hit me with those clue-bats.

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In reply to Perl program does not seem to be understood by Fedora 21 by swampyankee

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