I am stumped.. I have a script for which I have verified perl is indeed where it should be, but if you execute it like this:

./script.pl

it gives the message

: bad interpreter: No such file or directory

IF you go into the script and change

#!/usr/bin/perl
to
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

It executes.. but there are SO many errors, it doesn't work (it's a CGI script from somebody, that has "issues").

Has anyone ever seen this?? It has some "require" statements for some other perl chunks, and I was wondering if that had anything to do with it, but I edited a few scripts, and it doesn't seem to affect anything.

The script lives on a local file system, and has proper permissions.

Thanks a lot ahead of time.

Update:

I did not see any control chars, but ran dos2unix anyway on it, and then it started working. Really strange.

Thanks everyone!!

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