bash: ./fam_mirror: bad interpreter: No such file or directory

I am getting this error I am getting when I try to run a script with

#!/usr/bin/perl

at the beginning of my script. Any idea what this means?

Try:

stat /usr/bin/perl

If that says the file doesn't exist then the error is correct.

#!<file>
Is the start of a script, the file after the #! is the binary (executable) that interprets the script. You'll generally see either /usr/bin/sh or /usr/bin/bash or /usr/bin/perl

If you don't have perl you should install it. I'm surprised you don't though. try to type in:

which perl

If it finds anything, change the file after #! to point to the new one, or make a symmlink to /usr/bin/perl from whatever which found.

File: "/usr/bin/perl"
Size: 797972 Blocks: 1568 IO Block: -4612029340933156864 Regular File
Device: 806h/2054d Inode: 32496 Links: 2
Access: (0755/-rwxr-xr-x) Uid: ( 0/ root) Gid: ( 0/ root)
Access: Mon Dec 1 09:30:00 2003
Modify: Tue Mar 26 12:30:20 2002
Change: Tue Nov 11 08:50:43 2003

This is what I get when I ran the command so there doesn't seem to be anything wrong with the file but thanks for your help. Any other idea's.

/usr/bin/perl

This is what I got when I ran which perl.

Make sure you don't have any spaces before #!/usr/bin/perl or anywhere inside it.
Or any new lines before it.
Try running it as root too, and try just

#!/usr/bin/perl

That's it, with no commands. Does it still complain?

I'm having the same prob,

and I've already tried all your suggestions, yet the problem still exists.

Any new ideas?

Thank you

Hey i had the same problem, and a bit more searching found this post which sorted it out for me:


You have DOS linefeeds in your file. Convert the file to Unix linefeeds, either by copying the file using ASCII mode FTP, or one of:

tr -d '\r' < script > script.new

perl -pi -e 's/\r$//;' script

dos2unix < script > script.new