Hi.

One day my shebang suddenly stopped working properly.

It doesn't complain that it can't find perl or anything.

It just doesn't do anything at all.

Can anyone guide me to what is wrong here?

Thanks a lot.

[miraceti@centenum blast]$ 
[miraceti@centenum blast]$ which perl
/usr/bin/perl
[miraceti@centenum blast]$ cat hello.pl
#!/usr/bin/perl -W

print "Hello, World!\n";


[miraceti@centenum blast]$ ./hello.pl
[miraceti@centenum blast]$ perl hello.pl
Hello, World!
[miraceti@centenum blast]$

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2006-04-14 Retitled by planetscape, as per Monastery guidelines
Original title: '(dupe of 543444; do not reply) problem with shebang'

Edited by planetscape - added code tags and rudimentary formatting

In reply to problem with shebang by miraceti

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