There must be something wrong with your shebang line as these are are the errors that you get when a perl script is run by the shell rather than by perl.

Is there actually a file at /home/freetool/bin/perl5? Is it a valid Perl interpreter? What do you get if you type

perl -v /home/freetool/bin/perl5

Also worth checking that there are no spurious invisible characters added to the end of the shebang line.

Oh, and when adding more info like this, you'd usually add it as a follow-up to the original node.

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In reply to Re: Beginner needs more help by davorg
in thread Syntax Error Messages (was: Beginner needs help (in more ways than one !)) by richmusk

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