i have a problem, im trying to run a perl script, but all i seem to get is this error code
bash: ./install: bad interpreter: No such file or directory

somone on irc was trying to help me, but he disconnected and was not able to finish, here is a copy/paste of what he was having me do.

root@Aura:/var/www/cgi-bin# head -n1 ./install
#!/bin/sh
root@Aura:/var/www/cgi-bin# which perl
/usr/local/bin/perl
root@Aura:/var/www/cgi-bin# which sh
/bin/sh
root@Aura:/var/www/cgi-bin# ln -s /usr/local/bin/perl /usr/bin/perl
ln: `/usr/bin/perl': File exists
root@Aura:/var/www/cgi-bin# ls -l /bin/sh
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 May 9 18:35 /bin/sh -> bash
root@Aura:/var/www/cgi-bin# ls -l /bin/bash
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root bin 518140 Apr 10 2001 /bin/bash

any help on this head ache would help.

Thanks.



The system is Slack 8.0 with Kernel 2.4.5
Perl version 5.6.1

Shouldn't the first line of your perl script be the path to perl? Like this #!/usr/local/bin/perl instead of #!/bin/sh.

You may use this nice (nasty?) trick, to keep your script portable and functional:


#!/bin/sh
# \
exec perl "$0" "$@"



HTH,

vfs.

Don't know if anyone made this discovery yet....

I had the same problem and made the following discovery
about the script I was trying to execute but was receiving the 'bad interpreter' message (Redhat Linux 7.3].
The script looked fine when I opened it in vi, btw.
and I could execute the script fine by calling it directly with
perl (it was a perl script).

When you invoke vi in Linux, the editor "vim" is invoked
(because of the alias vi=vim).
vim recognizes both dos and unix file formats.
When I vi'd the file, it appeared fine but the
fileformat (when you first open) stated the file was [dos].
I issued command ":set fileformat=unix" in vi (vim) and
saved. After that, the script ran fine.

Bottom line is the file hae the dos end-of-line character(s) instead
of the unix newline. I guess Perl handles the dos format but bash
does not.