The error message makes it look as though the space between the script name and the "--ed" option is not being recognized in the mac's bash shell as a space.

I wonder... did the command line get pasted into the shell terminal window from a web page (or HTML-formatted email display)? If so, there might have been a "wide-character" space (e.g. U+00A0, NON-BREAK SPACE). The mac's native "Terminal" application has no trouble rendering wide characters so that they look "normal", but the bash shell will see this apparent "space" as a two-byte sequence "0xC0 0xA0", which the shell will interpret as a continuation of the name of the perl script (and the "--ed" will also be included, since there's no real space character in front of it).

(UPDATE: forgot to mention: if the command line was pasted in from an HTML display of some sort, the solution is to just type the command line manually -- being sure to use the space bar between command line args -- rather than pasting it in.)

In reply to Re: running Perl's script on mac, and error messages returned by graff
in thread running Perl's script on mac, and error messages returned by Anonymous Monk

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