Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Greetings wise monks, I hope you can help with a small problem. I write many of my Perl scripts on Windows and store them on CVSNT, but occasionally the CVS server ignores how I initially checked in my file with just LF characters and insists placing a CRLF character at the end of each line. This breaks my scripts when executed on the FreeBSD server with errors like : - 
: bad interpreter: No such file or directory
I know how to strip out these characters using various command line scripts etc but I was hoping for a more permanent solution.
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Re: Running Perl scripts written on Windows on FreeBSD
by bsdz (Friar) on Sep 20, 2004 at 11:08 UTC
    Try something like this on the command line: - 
    perl -e'symlink("/usr/bin/perl","/usr/bin/perl\r")'

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    you can always remove the symlink by using: - 
    perl -e'unlink("/usr/bin/perl\r")'

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    Good luck!
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      Absolutely brilliant, you're a genius bsdz!! I’ve even tested this with Linux and other interpreters like Bash and it works like a treat :-)
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