* G. Wade Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080804 07:21]: >> year. But when I attempted to execute the script bash returned an >> error message: >> >> $ ./gus_morse.pl --path ~/scratch/message.txt >> >> bash: ./gus_morse.pl: /usr/bin/perl^M: bad interpreter: No such >> file or directory > The error message actually tells you exactly what you need to know. The > perl program it is trying to run is wrong, because it has a carriage > return in the name. > > This is usually caused by trying to run a DOS/Windows formatted file on > some UNIX flavor. > > Run dos2unix on the script.
Thanks, Wade. You solved the problem. Upon encountering the error, the first thing I did was to search for control-M using Emacs, and nothing was found; obviously I need to read over the section of the Emacs manual which covers searching for control characters. I had good reason to believe that the author of the script was running Linux, but I suppose that running dos2unix is a worthwhile precaution for any script which is downloaded from the web. A while back, a Perl script which I wrote appeared to be behaving pathologically, until I discovered that the text files which I was attempting to process (and, indeed, was processing with a great measure of success) had been generated on a DO$/Window$ system. Regards, RLH _______________________________________________ Houston mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/houston Website: http://houston.pm.org/
