CyberTiger wrote: > I had this one recently... turned out to be a windows linefeed at the end > of the hashbang.
Yep, that's it. I managed to get both scripts looking identical but with one failing and one OK. bad.pl #!/usr/bin/perl print "bad\n"; good.pl #!/usr/bin/perl print "good\n"; 'diff -u good.pl bad.pl' tells me this: -#!/usr/bin/perl -print "good\n"; +#!/usr/bin/perl +print "bad\n"; And 'od' reveals the problem: [abw@kickflip ~/perl/hacks/goodbad] od -c good.pl 0000000 # ! / u s r / b i n / p e r l \n 0000020 p r i n t " g o o d \ n " ; \n 0000040 [abw@kickflip ~/perl/hacks/goodbad] od -c bad.pl 0000000 # ! / u s r / b i n / p e r l \r 0000020 \n p r i n t " b a d \ n " ; \r 0000040 \n 0000041 And there it is - the \r DOSsy carriage return. DOS sucks. Bill Gates is the Antichrist. Moveable Type is a pain in the ass to install and Grey Matter is no better. All software sucks. War is inevitable (between France and the USA if nothing else) and the sky is falling in. Apart from that, everyone have a nice day :-) Thanks for the help A (founder of Doom::Mongers.pm)
