Maybe your scripts (firstscript and secondscript) have <CR><LF> line terminations instead of the usual (on unix) <LF> line termination. That might explain the first of your error messages. The second error message, beginning without an opening single quote and with the text ".links" is a bit more puzzling.
One way to see what your line terminations are is to use the "od" command. For example, in the following, each line ends with "\r\n".
$ od -c test.html
0000000 < h t m l > \r \n < h e a d > \r \
+n
0000020 < t i t l e > t e s t < / t i
+t
0000040 l e > \r \n < / h e a d > \r \n <
+b
0000060 o d y > \r \n T h i s i s s
+o
0000100 m e " t e x t " i n t h
+e
0000120 b o d y . \r \n < / b o d y > \
+r
0000140 \n < / h t m l > \r \n
0000152
After converting the line endings, it appears as follows:
$ od -c test.html
0000000 < h t m l > \n < h e a d > \n <
+t
0000020 i t l e > t e s t < / t i t l
+e
0000040 > \n < / h e a d > \n < b o d y
+>
0000060 \n T h i s i s s o m e "
+t
0000100 e x t " i n t h e b o d
+y
0000120 . \n < / b o d y > \n < / h t m
+l
0000140 > \n
0000142
Now the lines end with "\n" only.
Depending on your unix installation, you may have a command "dos2unix". I used the vim editor. You might also be able to use the "tr" command as "tr -d '\r' <file.old >file.new"
How did you create your perl script files?
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