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on Jul 12, 2004 at 02:17 UTC ( [id://373534]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
The issue is with line endings, but most likely not why you think. In the first line of the file, you'll have: #!/usr/bin/perl or the equivalent. If you transfer between a windows PC and a UNIX box, you end up with: #!/usr/bin/perl^M So, when you go to execute the script, it looks for 'perl^M' to execute, which it can't find. When you're dealing with CGIs, this can be a real problem to debug, as you'll get 'file not found' type error message which confuses people. Just to be safe, I recommend using the shebang line of: #!/usr/bin/perl -- Typically, you can get away with bad line endings for most scripts this way, but I'm guessing '<<EOF' type declarations would be a problem, as would pod.
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