I know this kind of deals maybe not so much with perl fully, but more of the system. However, I am asking this question in hope that someone has had this problem before.

On my system running perl v5.8.3 I have come across an odd problem:

The script in question:

$ ./test1.pl

: bad interpreter: No such file or directory

$

The second script that works:

$ ./test2.pl

Usage: do this, do that.

$

Now, both of the scripts both include #!/usr/bin/perl in the beginning of the script. They also are set with the same permissions and everything. What could be this problem, I know it doesn't deal with perl coding, however, once again, I was just wondering if maybe someone has run into this problem before.

Help would be appreciated, thanks!

In reply to Problem with perl interpreter by funkymonkey

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