hi guys, thanks for your very quick (!) help! unfortunately, neither one helped me get rid of my problem. here is some more output as requested: 
[12:28, 36deg, 31%] steppenwolf@baby:~/documents/perl$  la print.pl 
-rwxr-xr-x  1 steppenwolf steppenwolf 39 Oct 20 12:26 print.pl
[12:28, 36deg, 31%] steppenwolf@baby:~/documents/perl$  which perl
/usr/bin/perl
[12:28, 36deg, 31%] steppenwolf@baby:~/documents/perl$  type perl
perl is /usr/bin/perl
[12:28, 36deg, 31%] steppenwolf@baby:~/documents/perl$  od -cx print.p
+l 
0000000   #   !   /   u   s   r   /   b   i   n   /   p   e   r   l  \
+n
        2123 752f 7273 622f 6e69 702f 7265 0a6c
0000020  \n   p   r   i   n   t       '   h   e   l   l   o       w   
+o
        700a 6972 746e 2720 6568 6c6c 206f 6f77
0000040   r   l   d   !   '   ;  \n  \0
        6c72 2164 3b27 000a
0000047
[12:28, 36deg, 31%] steppenwolf@baby:~/documents/perl$

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does that help you?

In reply to Re^2: script-problem by Anonymous Monk
in thread script-problem by Anonymous Monk

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