in reply to Can't open perl script: Permission denied

For anyone new to Perl on UNIX/Linux/BSD (or people just new to one of those platforms) the #!usr/bin/perl line is missing a leading slash. It should be: 
#!/usr/bin/perl

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It's not relevant to the OP but I thought I would mention it lest it confuse someone else later on.

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