Running Perl scripts written on Windows on FreeBSD

[Anonymous Monk]

Greetings wise monks, I hope you can help with a small problem. I write many of my Perl scripts on Windows and store them on CVSNT, but occasionally the CVS server ignores how I initially checked in my file with just LF characters and insists placing a CRLF character at the end of each line. This breaks my scripts when executed on the FreeBSD server with errors like : -

: bad interpreter: No such file or directory

I know how to strip out these characters using various command line scripts etc but I was hoping for a more permanent solution.

[bsdz]

Try something like this on the command line: -

perl -e'symlink("/usr/bin/perl","/usr/bin/perl\r")'

you can always remove the symlink by using: -

perl -e'unlink("/usr/bin/perl\r")'

Good luck!

[Anonymous Monk]

Absolutely brilliant, you're a genius bsdz!! I’ve even tested this with Linux and other interpreters like Bash and it works like a treat :-)