in reply to problem with shebang

Here's another tack. Run this command, and you should get the # and the ! as output 
    $ od -c -N2 hello.pl
    0000000   #   !

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If you don't, then there's some kind of whitespace or other invisible character (a BOM maybe) before the #!, and that's what is hiding the shebang from the operating system.

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Re^2: problem with shebang
by Aldebaran (Curate) on Oct 18, 2018 at 00:26 UTC

    Interesting, TimToady, I didn't know the od command: 

    $ od -c -N2 1.hello.pl
0000000   #   !
0000002
$ man od
$ od -c -N8 1.hello.pl
0000000   #   !   /   u   s   r   /   b
0000010
$

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