As a rough guess, was that a dos/MS file? I've had very confusing scripts like that before that couldn't find /usr/bin/perl^M, because of that control character. If this was the case, putting -w after the invocation would fix it as you said.
HTH Bec Personal reply as per your Reply-To On Mon, Aug 13, 2001 at 04:05:21PM +0200, Eugene van Zyl wrote: > Hi, > > Question: > I've got a perl script with the following permissions: > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 23980 Aug 13 15:55 data_update.pl > the first line in the script is: > #!/usr/bin/perl > which is where perl lives on Debian potato -> perl -V gives the correct > reponse ... > but # ./data_update.pl gives me: > bash: ./data_update.pl: No such file or directory > What gives? What obvious thing am I missing here cause other scripts run fine. > > TAI, > Eugene van Zyl > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
