You forgot to make your script executable, as this demo shows: 
   $ ls -l /usr/bin/perl 
   -rwxr-xr-x    2 root      root   2478418 Jan 16  2004 /usr/bin/perl
   $ rm -f print.pl
   $ echo '#!/usr/bin/perl' > print.pl
   $ echo 'print "Hello, world\n"' >> print.pl
   $ ls -l print.pl
   -rw-------    1 anonymous monk        39 Oct 20 11:33 print.pl 
   $ ./print.pl
   bash: ./print.pl: /usr/bin/perl: bad interpreter: Permission denied
   $ chmod +x print.pl
   $ ls -l print.pl
   -rwx------    1 anonymous monk        39 Oct 20 11:33 print.pl
   $ ./print.pl
   Hello, world

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It's not that your she bang line is wrong as a previous poster suggested. If that was the case, you would get the message: 
    $ bash: ./print.pl: /usr/bin/perl: bad interpreter: No such file o
+r directory

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which you would also get if there were "unreadable" characters after 'perl' as the other posted suggested.

In reply to Re: script-problem by Anonymous Monk
in thread script-problem by Anonymous Monk

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