For anyone who's curious, the REAL problem was that the file had been uploaded as DOS (CRLF) rather than UNIX (LF only) "Filezilla" auto corrects on upload - but not so cPanel "FileManager"

Now I got to write a script to check 200+ files on my Windows7 / Strawbery PERL local machine. I will use File::Find::Rule to reiterate through all the folders and sub domains, and open the first line of each file. If it's a CRLF, THEN I will open the file. make the change, and save it out again. Problem at present is getting grep to find the linefeed. Tried escaping and /\x0A\x0D/, but won't play ball! 

#!/usr/bin/perl 
print "content-type:  text/html\n\n";
 use CGI::Carp qw( fatalsToBrowser );
use File::Find::Rule;
$string="\x0D\x0A";

#my @files = File::Find::Rule->file()->name('*.pl')->in('/home/cristof
+a/public_html/'); # set ->in('.') to start from current directory

my @files=('D:/home/cristofa/public_html/cgi-bin/dummy/testme.pl');
for ($x=0; $x<@files; $x++){
    open THEFILE, "<$files[$x]";
    $first_line = <THEFILE>;
    print $first_line;
    close THEFILE;

        if (grep(/$string$/,$first_line)){
        print File "$files[$x] is incorrect<br>";
    #    &correct_file;
        }
}

sub correct_file{
open (FILE, "<$files[$x]);
while(<FILE>){
$tmp.=$_;
}
    $tmp=~s/[\n\r][\n\r]/\n/g;
open (FILE, ">$files[$x]);
print FILE $tmp;
close(FILE);
$tmp='';
}
print "All done";

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It is only checking the single test file at this stage, which should print "File XYZ is incorrect" if its working

In reply to Re^2: When modules install in perl5 by cristofayre
in thread When modules install in perl5 by cristofayre

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