Re: (8)Exec format error: when running the script on Linux

I came across this thread when Googling on "(8)Exec format error:". This probably not the answer to the question asked... However, I've just had this problem and it turned out that I'd started my script with a newline and not #!/usr/bin/perl (ie I'd opened emacs hit return, then paged down to the bit of code I was working on).

so the script worked as 'perl foo.pl' but not via apache

Hope this helps someone.

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Re^2: (8)Exec format error: when running the script on Linux by Anonymous Monk on Apr 22, 2009 at 19:31 UTC
I had the same issue, Thank You for the wisdom to solve my issue in such a timely manner. May happiness find you on your travels.	[reply]
Re^2: (8)Exec format error: when running the script on Linux by Anonymous Monk on Jun 30, 2009 at 11:35 UTC
solved my problem too. thank you very much!	[reply]
Re^2: (8)Exec format error: when running the script on Linux by Anonymous Monk on Jun 30, 2009 at 11:50 UTC
That is good reason to adopt template `#!/usr/bin/perl -- #!/usr/bin/perl -w -- #!/usr/bin/perl -Tw -- ...` [download] -- signals end of options	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: (8)Exec format error: when running the script on Linux by Hermano23 (Beadle) on Jul 29, 2014 at 15:50 UTC
You are a wonderful person for taking the time to do this. Thank you.	[reply]
Re^2: (8)Exec format error: when running an unicode script by Anonymous Monk on Oct 15, 2011 at 21:04 UTC
I tried what you monks said, but it didn't quite work out for me. Until I discovered that some stupid editor inserted the utf-8 byte order mark without asking and thus mangled my shebang into `#!/usr/bin/perl` I had to change the encoding to remove the mark, and now everything works fine :)	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: (8)Exec format error: when running an unicode script by Anonymous Monk on Oct 15, 2013 at 15:06 UTC
If you are using Notepad++ as your editor and you are using unicode, be sure to have it set to "Encode n UTF-8 without BOM". Otherwise, you get that leading character,	[reply]